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Swagger

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

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Fashionable 84% connected

Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress.

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Fashionable 84% connected

Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress.

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Stylish 84% connected

Having style or artistic quality; given to, or fond of, the display of style; highly fashionable; modish; as, a stylish dress, house, manner.

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Stylish 84% connected

Having style or artistic quality; given to, or fond of, the display of style; highly fashionable; modish; as, a stylish dress, house, manner.

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Acquit 76% connected

Acquitted; set free; rid of.

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Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Bear 76% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Behave 76% connected

To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.

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Blarney 76% connected

Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery.

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Cajole 76% connected

To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle.

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Carry 76% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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Coax 76% connected

To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering, or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe.

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Comport 76% connected

To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.

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Conduct 76% connected

The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

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Deport 76% connected

To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.

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Gait 76% connected

A going; a walk; a march; a way.

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Gipsy 76% connected

See Gypsy.

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Gypsy 76% connected

One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in 14th or 15th centry, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia,…

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Inveigle 76% connected

To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle.

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Itinerant 76% connected

Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler.

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Palaver 76% connected

Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery.

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Walk 76% connected

To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate…

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Wheedle 76% connected

To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax.

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Prancer 74% connected

A horse which prances.

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Prancer 74% connected

A horse which prances.

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Strut 74% connected

To swell; to bulge out.

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Strut 74% connected

To swell; to bulge out.

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Synonym 8

Bluster 92% connected

To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Browbeat 92% connected

of Browbeat

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Bully 92% connected

A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.

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Cock 92% connected

The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls.

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Prance 92% connected

To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle.

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Ruffle 92% connected

To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Strut 92% connected

To swell; to bulge out.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Swash 92% connected

An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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