verb
- To walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others.
- usage: "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"
- Discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate.
- Act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner.
adjective
- Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy."some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual- W. L. Shirer
- synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious
- Flamboyantly adventurous.
- synonyms: swashbuckling
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