boastful
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Classic Loki, Boastful Loki, and Kid Loki, as they’re so dubbed, arrive like bombs of fun upon the screen.
From Slate • Jul. 14, 2021
Described by Boastful Loki as “a living tempest that consumes matter and energy,” Alioth is what makes sure whatever is sent to the end of time never escapes.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2021
Boastful and charismatic, Aronov arrives in the show’s second act and gives it a hefty dose of humor and hyperbole vis-a-vis the play’s weighty, politically fraught subject matter.
From The Guardian • Jun. 9, 2017
Just to prove the lack of discipline was no fluke, Ryan’s Boastful Bills committed 17 penalties, including five personal fouls.
From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2015
Boastful but poor; a coiner of words, but very ignorant; solemnly grave, but ridiculously awkward; majestical in gait, but of very low propensities.—Shakespeare,
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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