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Swagger

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To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.

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The word "swagger" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who has a confident and bold manner and often as a verb meaning "to walk in a confident manner". Example sentence: He swaggered down the street with his head held high.

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Such is the swagger and confidence coursing through Chelsea's squad that José Mourinho swatted aside any concerns over an injury picked up by Loïc Rémy during this Stamford Bridge breeze.

Then again, you wouldn't want to take away too much of that raw aggression or remove much of that swagger, the kind of boundless energy that simply saved 2013 for Los Angeles.

Look closely at the murals, though, and you'll see they have none of the grand swagger usually associated with Victorian public art.

In the meantime, it's the sexy Gary Numan swagger of Chvrches' Lies at 60. Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 3.12pm AEST04:12 First appearance from London Grammar with Wasting My Young Years, no 61 on the Hottest 100.

The instinct, in these circumstances, is to brace oneself for the onslaught of unbearable Aussie swagger.

There is an unheard underclass who scorn politicians, laugh out loud at the local paper, frighten the middle class with their potentially threatening swagger, and continue to support two of the fallen giants of fubble, City and Rovers.

Strap a guitar around her and Carrie struts around the stage with a Mick Jagger hip swagger, shredding riffs with Pete Townshend arm windmills.

The hardcore American myths of fighting rivals, making it and escaping the hood mingle with the swagger, anxiety and wariness of an English black man born in broken Peckham in the early 1980s, raised by a feisty single mum, a father himself at 21, who ended up spending two years in jail on gun charges, numbly emerging in 2005 with a plan to better himself.

In Pride, he is beautifully played by Ben Schnetzer with spontaneity, sweetness and swagger – a heartbreaker.

Jamie's new "get Britain cooking!" show, Jamie's Ministry Of Food (Tue, 9pm, Channel 4) is in stark contrast to his last feelgood swagger, Jamie At Home, where we witnessed a floaty, intoxicating dream of how a culinary life could truly be lived: five sorts of carrot, fresh chicory and exemplary endive growing in your garden beside a working kiln perfect for those ad hoc rustique cassoulets.

In my book I've tried to give a taste of this spirit while also listing newer hotels, each of them with their own distinct rock'n'roll swagger.

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