bragger
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He was a genuine guy, not a bragger or anything like that,” remembered Weldon.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2022
Mostly, I feel angry when I hear about one of her achievements, even though she’s not a bragger.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
I am firmly of the opinion that LaVar Ball is an overbearing colossal bragger whose only concern is his own self-aggrandizement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2017
She wasn't a bragger, like Norman Mailer, or a misanthrope like J.D.
From US News ● Feb. 19, 2016
May Belle would tell Daddy, so it wouldn’t look as though he, Jesse, was a bragger.
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
AS A PARENT, I find the unspoken reason this topic elicits such passion is that the same feeling underlies both the braggers and the antibraggers: fear.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2013
But the prevalence of social media has given us many more canvases on which to paint our faux humility — making us, in turn, increasingly sophisticated braggers.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2012
Winning the braggers Cup heaps prestige upon the winners and shame amongst the losers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dear children, though you're winners, Be modest all; For pride must fall, And braggers lose their dinners.'
From Miss Elliot's Girls Stories of Beasts, Birds, and Butterflies by Corning, Mary Spring
I have heard so much silly bragging by Texans that I now think it would be a blessing to themselves—and a relief to others—if the braggers did not know they lived in Texas.
From Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations by Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank)
