braggart

Example Sentences

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It would make a great double-feature with Burt Lancaster’s 1968 “The Swimmer,” another hallucinatory psychodrama about a braggart skidding downhill.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2025

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

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 • Jul. 1, 2022

I know he wasn’t truly a bad man at heart, but he was an obnoxious, know-it-all braggart.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2021

“A braggart of a man,” her father said after the landlord left, and then he said nothing else.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie