What's the difference between noisily and swagger?

Noisily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a noisy manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The RWA is noisily supported by the Association of American Publishers , which has as members more than 50 scholarly societies – including, ironically, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which by its implicit support of the RWA is making itself an association for the retardation of science.
  • (2) Oldsters originally from Algeria or Indochina, Corsica or Greece chat on chairs in the sun while kids play noisily.
  • (3) The proximity and freshness of the life Olney knew was celebrated in the carnival atmosphere of dinners on the terrace lighted by strings of coloured bulbs, presided over by the great toad Victor, who noisily descended the steps at dusk to observe the terrace activity.
  • (4) More than 2,000 Republicans turned up at another Boston hotel last night to noisily celebrate a rare victory after heavy defeats in the 2006 congressional elections and again in 2008 for the White House.
  • (5) Supporters of Sisi, and those opposed to his regime , noisily sought to drown each other out on Thursday, separated only by a police van and officers.
  • (6) Bisola Edun's electricity generator sits outside her small Lagos fashion shop and factory, noisily churning out heat and fumes for five hours every day.
  • (7) I get the feeling that in the last week or so, doctors generally are beginning to realise that I and Jeremy Hunt may be right, however noisily their leaders may huff and puff.
  • (8) Given that the UK was part of the EU, and also linked by other busy immigration routes to its vast former empire, and to the US, a stable or falling population, as had existed throughout the 1970s – a period of perceived British decline that Thatcher had noisily promised to reverse – could hardly be assumed.
  • (9) As her young nieces play noisily in the yard, Velásquez says many of her neighbours have suffered the same classic Zika symptoms – fever, rash and conjunctivitis.
  • (10) If, at a polite drinks do, a man starts noisily doing a shit in the corner of the room, the dignified response is to avert your gaze.
  • (11) Within minutes of his criticism of Israel for its treatment of the Palestinians, delegations from various countries began to rise from their seats and noisily left the chamber.
  • (12) "Because I shall continue to be privately annoyed at those who jump the bus queue, those who stand smoking in large groups outside their office, drinkers who block the footpath outside a pub on a summer's evening, those who put their feet on the seats on public transport, those who protest noisily outside parliament or my local bank, but none of that surely should risk an injunctive procedure on the grounds of nuisance and annoyance."
  • (13) I decide to swim noisily, and splash like a three-year-old.
  • (14) The children did (as children do) a lot of grappling and wrestling, bickered, vied noisily for attention.
  • (15) But in the 1920s, scarred by the crackdown on German Americans and socialists during World War I, he was a radical freethinker who noisily waged war against the booboisie (his term for the stupid and the gullible), religion and the business-dominated status quo, who ridiculed Warren Harding and supported Sacco and Vanzetti.
  • (16) David Silva was exhilarating and there was the hard evidence here why City were so determined Yaya Touré should not be cut free when the Ivorian’s agent was noisily speculating about a transfer last season.
  • (17) The Who's My Generation comes on and he sings along with it, noisily and throatily.
  • (18) How does Lily, whose songs have always been noisily personal, feel about the eras of Lily that have come before?
  • (19) Occupying a grand Victorian building in what is still a grand boulevard despite the noisily bustling lunchtime crowds, its doors sweep open to usher customers into a large open carpeted room, dotted almost sparsely with stuff relating to your money.
  • (20) The protests were peaceful, though tensions rose when a marching band, along with about 100 demonstrators, crowded noisily into the lobby of an office building where they asked a housing developer to roll back rent increases.

Swagger


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
  • (v. i.) To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
  • (v. t.) To bully.
  • (n.) The act or manner of a swaggerer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is a certain degree of swagger, a sudden interruption of panache, as Alan Moore enters the rather sterile Waterstones office where he has agreed to speak to me.
  • (2) From flood defences to Crossrail 2, corporation tax cuts to provision for people with disabilities , the risks of Brexit to £20m for Hull: this was a chancellor roaming the political landscape with undiminished swagger and not a hint of apology.
  • (3) Wenger had complained of a sinister media plot to brainwash Arsenal's home fans, as though they were easily led and swing in the breeze, but it all was sweetness and light as Aaron Ramsey continued his early season swagger.
  • (4) Such swagger would look naïve and unreflexive now, in a country assailed by anxiety about its own impotence in the world.
  • (5) Ratko Mladic, opening his defence in The Hague this week, has reason to understand the change in a way he did not when he was swaggering through the Bosnian killing fields.
  • (6) (This is not just swagger: Barton's brother Michael, after all, is currently serving a minimum of 17 years in prison for his part in the racially motivated murder of Anthony Walker in 2005.
  • (7) In an ideal world one of the candidates will swagger over to the other, as Al Gore did to George Bush in 2000.
  • (8) I am aware, too, that I associate tattoos on men with aggression, the kind of arrogant swagger that goes with vest tops, dogs on chains, broken beer glasses.
  • (9) Twin muses of Liam Gallagher and Jimi Hendrix added up to louche tailoring, flower prints and urban staples like a swagger-tastic Gallagher parka.
  • (10) A distinct swagger in his step became apparent as his career developed at Boro but right up until his appearance at Bradford crown court, there had been little evidence of a genuinely darker side to his nature.
  • (11) Lucky enough to catch him playing its songs at New York’s Ritz early in 1981, I was instantly won over by his thrilling talent and androgynous swagger.
  • (12) Cut to the elegant hotel corridor, Gimme Shelter screaming on the soundtrack, and Denzel emerges, swaggering and magnificent in full pilot's uniform, ready to go to work.
  • (13) The 22-year-old was outstanding, a swaggering, forceful presence who left City's players with little choice but to hack him down.
  • (14) Most important are the donors, who can usually be spotted by their swagger and the strong smell of cigar-smoke.
  • (15) Tottenham’s Denmark playmaker had not completed 90 minutes since 15 August, a knee injury hampering his early-season form, but two free-kick equalisers blew away the cobwebs here and ensured deserved parity for his team in a vibrant game characterised by swagger on the ball and defensive jitters off it.
  • (16) In Richard Moore’s book The Bolt Supremacy he describes the odd cocktail of bonhomie and saccharine that surrounded the sprinter’s swaggering conquest of London 2012.
  • (17) It is an assessment that continues to resonate, not just because of who it came from but also because it aptly encapsulates the swaggering brilliance of that Liverpool team, one which having crushed Forest went on to clinch the club's 17th league championship at a canter.
  • (18) Promoting Pirates of the Caribbean, Johnny Depp swaggered through the hall dressed as his character, Captain Jack Sparrow, as fans were told that Orlando Bloom’s character, Will Turner, will return for the fifth instalment of the franchise, Dead Men Tell No Tales, in 2017.
  • (19) Former Labour staffers, moderate refugees fleeing the hard-left takeover under Corbyn, sometimes bristled at what they saw as unmerited swagger in the step of the Downing Street contingent, who expected to easily replicate their victory in the previous May’s general election.
  • (20) But it also reflects US elite breast-beating about economic failure, the rise of China and a loss of global swagger since the Bush years.

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