· to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"

Synonym(s): tittup, ruffle, prance, strut, sashay, cock

Hypernym(s): walk

· discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate

Synonym(s): browbeat, bully

Hypernym(s): wheedle, cajole, palaver, blarney, coax, sweet-talk, inveigle

· act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner

Synonym(s): bluster, swash

Hypernym(s): act, behave, do

· having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer

Synonym(s): disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious

· flamboyantly adventurous

Synonym(s): swashbuckling