If you act with bravado, you are making a bold showy statement. Picture a cowboy bursting through saloon doors in an old western, and you can picture bravado.
Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace.
Noun
a swaggering show of courage
n.
Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace.
Bravado
In spite of our host's bravado.
Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace.
Usage Examples
Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.
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Other Usage ExamplesI think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.
Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.