bravado

He clearly hopes his bravado will woo some of the network’s audience, just as it won over Watters.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

Throughout the trial, Davis' defence team tried to persuade jurors that his comments were fiction - bravado and exaggeration intended to sell books and make money.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

His buffoonish bravado and frequent failures alienate everyone who is not completely in his camp.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

SEATTLE—Despite the American bravado heading into its home World Cup, there was always an unspoken fear that everything might suddenly go sideways for the U.S. national team.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Turkeys seem to be manic-depressive types, gobbling with blushing wattles, spread tails, and scraping wings in amorous bravado at one moment and huddled in craven cowardice the next.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

But idlers and bravadoes of larger size and prouder show must beware, how they place themselves within its sweep.

From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And without being blown into splinters by artillery, how many of these Redoubtables and Invincibles have succumbed to the waves, and like braggarts gone down before hurricanes, with their bravadoes broad on their bows.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

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 Warren T. Ashton

He was now fairly mad with rage, drew his sword, thrust and cut into the corner whence the laugh rang, and challenged the Kobold with bravadoes, to come on.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various

For, one day, a band of valiant men of Thurgau, incited by the bailiff from Uri, had tried to surprise the city, in order to punish her for her bravadoes against the Swiss.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

Mimi began to laugh and to utter bravados.

From Bohemians of the Latin Quarter by Henry Murger

It would be interesting to stare defiantly at his enemy at close range, to speak with him again man to man, to lure him into further bravados.

From Broken to the Plow by Charles Caldwell Dobie

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 Robert Kerr

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

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 G. A. (George Alfred) Henty