bravado

But the DNA of the Barbary wars exists throughout American military history, a cocktail of entitlement, bravado and hypocrisy flavored with desperate violence.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

In his Monday video, Newsom urged Trump with mano a mano bravado to come after him as much as he wanted, but to leave his wife and family out of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

In a Wall Street Journal interview that November, founder Ren Zhengfei invited President Trump to come visit and brushed off U.S. sanctions with characteristic bravado.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

“We anticipate more of these bouts of bravado to dictate the region for a while as both sides claim they are winning and neither is willing to be seen as disadvantaged,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026

I nodded quick, all my bravado gone, breathing so hard my nose burned.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

It was easy to see that these mutual bravadoes were intended only to dazzle the populace, and that the two kings were too wise to think of executing their pretended purpose.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III. by Hume, David

He had listened with much disgust both to the mystic jargon of the soldier and the idle demands and bravadoes of the general.

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Bird, Robert Montgomery

Now, failure on every hand awaited him, and all those bravadoes with which he had kept down his better nature deserted him.

From Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue by Ashton, Warren T.

These bravadoes caused great irritation; still, the Spanish warriors were restrained by the prohibition of the king.

From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Irving, Washington

I've trudged the world; I have learned many bravadoes, so that my heart never stirred much to the mere trick of an instrument but one, and the piob mhor conquers me.

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil

Next to being raided by the sheriff of an adjacent county, having a river prophet come on board is the greatest excitement and the smartest amusement of the bravados down the river.

From The River Prophet by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)

She makes sorties and attacks, she endeavours to hide her weakness by her bravados, and when she replies most disdainfully to a summons to capitulate, is perhaps on the eve of surrender.

From At Agincourt by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

He must use his poetic powers as wonders attesting the purpose for which he speaks—not as mere bravados of ostentatious power.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various

They made many bravados, daily shooting off forty, fifty, or sixty pieces of ordnance at Nero and Puloway, thinking to frighten us.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

Mimi began to laugh and to utter bravados.

From Bohemians of the Latin Quarter by Murger, Henry