braggart

Example Sentences

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That it’s a wildly conservative place full of oil roughnecks and cowboys and brash braggarts.

From Seattle Times

Trump is a nasty piece of work: a crybaby, a braggart and an ignorant fool.

From Salon

"He was just some braggart saying, 'I'm D.B. Cooper,' you know?"

From Salon

Sonny Barger, 83, the bigger-than-life godfather of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, equal parts brawler, bully, braggart, rule breaker and shrewd huckster of his own outlaw mystique, died Wednesday at his home in California.

From Seattle Times

With Ukraine’s population of more than 40 million — and setting aside big-talkers, braggarts and blusterers — that could mean millions of people fighting back against the 190,000 troops Putin sent to overthrow the Zelensky government.

From Los Angeles Times