The word 'swaggering' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe someone who walks or behaves in a very confident and proud manner that is also slightly arrogant. Example sentence: The rock star was swaggering on stage, playing the guitar with ease and confidence.
But it's those aspects of his personality that have got him into the most trouble - his tenacity, his moral certitude, his swaggering insouciance - that have seen him through, seen him survive mad Madchester, prison, and all the rest - and emerge compos mentis.
Steven Soderbergh's spirited, swaggering update of Ocean's Eleven was, by all accounts, also fun to make.
This is the same man who, it is said, provided the paradigm for a generation of swaggering, insouciant Britpoppers.
But then a new hero came swaggering into view.
It's notable that EastEnders, the swaggering queen of soaps du jour, is attracting such big stars it can afford to waste them on a cameo.
It may have been the country's financial capital, but in the photographs that followed, swaggering Mumbai didn't look much different from a monsoon-marooned Bihar village.
He had just received an entire shilling from a generous aunt and was swaggering into his local sweetshop to buy an unprecedented sixpenn'orth of Gooseberry Eyes from the surprised owner.
It has been here since 1867 and its inmates have included Jean Genet, Carlos the Jackal, the crooked businessman Bernard Tapie, the rogue financier Jérôme Kerviel, Manuel Noriega and – most beloved by Parisians – the swaggering gangster Jacques Mesrine.
"Roistering, swaggering, thoughtless, voracious.
Now ponder something incontrovertible: that my opponent made an unusually explicit bet that America's diplomatic hand would be magically strengthened if he were seen listening to other governments, swaggering less, paying careful heed to grievances in the Muslim world and paying more respect to multilateral bodies.
But the mood in Berlin is not sunny, or swaggering.
