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braggadocio

How to use braggadocio in a sentence

We feel every moment of his embarrassment and despair, balanced against his braggadocio and stubbornness.

It was the personality, it was the outspokenness, it was the poetry, it was the braggadocio.

Take care, Captain, misplaced courage is frequently braggadocio; your position is desperate.

He called a boasting knight by the name Braggadocio, and we still use the word braggadocio for vain boasting.

The wabeno, on the contrary, consisted wholly in a wild exhibition of mere braggadocio and trick.

Braggadocio here plays a great part, and also the desire to act like grown-ups.

"In course you can feel safe," replied Frost, with a braggadocio air that made Archie put him down as a coward at once.

He was of unknown nationality, of very powerful frame, a bully and a braggadocio.

How had he divested himself of that familiar swaggering, bustling braggadocio?

He did not say it with braggadocio, and yet it seemed incongruous, after the glimpse she had had of the man.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985