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n. Defiant or swaggering behavior: strove to prevent our courage from turning into bravado.

n. A pretense of courage; a false show of bravery.

n. A disposition toward showy defiance or false expressions of courage.

n. A swaggering show of defiance or courage.

n. A false show of courage.

n. Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace.

n. Pretentious boldness or bravery; arrogant or boastful menace; swaggering defiance.

n. One who indulges in boastful and arrogant menaces.

Arrogantly bold or menacing; said or done in bravado: as, “bravado bets,”

n. a swaggering show of courage

"Also, Graham realized that the turning of her head and the waving of her arm was only partly in bravado, was more in aesthetic wisdom of the picture she composed, and was, most of all, sheer joy of daring and emprise of the blood and the flesh and the life that was she."

flash    ostentation    fanfare   

bravadoes   

bluster    defiance   

Abbado    Alvarado    Colorado    Coronado    Dorado    avocado    cruzado    desperado    dorado    granado   

desperation    recklessness    arrogance    swagger    levity    gaiety    bluster    impatience    defiance    diffidence