braggart

Example Sentences

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Filmmakers picked up on her eccentric, mannered style and the so-called “Maggie Smith character” — the class-fixated braggart she perfected — was born.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 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

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

From Salon • Jul. 18, 2022

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

He was a poser, a braggart, and a tyrant.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston