braggart
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In Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” buffoonish actors play “the pedant, the braggart, the hedge priest, the fool, and the boy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
A fast talker who exudes confidence but isn’t a braggart, Newman looks far younger than 49.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025
What’s more, in the Spy magazine era, Mr. Trump was just a local nuisance, a braggart presiding over a foundering casino-hotel empire.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2024
He comes across as an insecure braggart in the indictment, a man desperate to cling to his status after an embarrassing fall from power.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2023
Had she been a braggart, it would have been much easier to hate her.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
Service to fellow wine lovers is clearly key in r/wine—a refreshing change from platforms like Instagram, where bottle-shot braggarts abound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
Rodell's team found similar results when surveying an additional 218 real-life employees about their experiences with stress braggarts.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
“He just did not suffer fools, braggarts, or idiots well.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 18, 2020
As Malcolm Gladwell recently pointed out, Harry Enfield’s 80s character Loadsa Money quickly got co-opted by the aspirational braggarts he was lampooning.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 21, 2017
Unless a group of little girls chanted some especially clever riddle, my mother, who distrusts people with public concerns, braggarts, went over to the quiet older girls with the dignified bows.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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