braggart
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Clayton is cool and kind and a big braggart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
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
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
He was a poser, a braggart, and a tyrant.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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
You’re in an underworld of informants and braggarts, and you can’t tell when people are bragging about being involved.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2016
This is the moment, Your Highness, that you might as well reveal our plan to all of the noble sneaks, eaves-droppers, braggarts, blowhards, and backstabbers who surround your throne.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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