bravado
21bravado — should not be confused with bravery. It is a swaggering or boastful display of boldness, often adopted to disguise an underlying timidity. It is, in short, a false bravery and there is nothing courageous about it …
22bravado — should not be confused with bravery. It is a swaggering or boastful display of boldness, often adopted to disguise an underlying timidity. It is, in short, a false bravery, and there is nothing courageous about it …
23bravado — bra·va·do || brÉ™ vÉ‘Ëdəʊ n. boasting, pretense of bravery, foolhardiness; bravery …
24bravado — (brah VAH doh) [Italian] A show of bravery, often unsupported by real strength; boastful defiance …
25bravado — [brə vα:dəʊ] noun boldness intended to impress or intimidate. Origin C16: from Sp. bravada, from bravo (see brave, ado) …
26bravado — n. Boast, boasting, brag, bluster, storming, furious bombast …
27bravado — n braggadocio, gasconade, swagger; bragging, boasting, blowing, crowing, vaunting, name dropping; fanfaronade, bluster, Sl. hot air, Sl. gas; bombast, pomposity, rodomontade, grandiosity, grandiloquence, magniloquence …
28bravado — bra·va·do …
29bravado — [brəˈvɑːdəʊ] noun [U] a brave, confident way of behaving, especially when you are in fact frightened …
30bravado — bra•va•do [[t]brəˈvɑ doʊ[/t]] n. pl. does, dos an ostentatious display of courage • Etymology: 1575–85; < Sp bravada (< It), der. of brav(o) brave …