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
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"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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