boaster

Example Sentences

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Consider Second Timothy, 3: 2: “For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy.”

From Salon

Steele, meanwhile, told agents during an October 2016 meeting in Rome that one of his sources was a “boaster” and “egotist” and “may engage in some embellishment,” according to the inspector general’s report.

From Washington Post

Mr. Steele later would describe Person 1 as a “boaster.”

From Washington Times

He was not a boaster, but it was clear from his pictures—of war, of conflict, of civil unrest—that he was brave.

From The New Yorker

The vanity of the boaster is easily spotted, and consequently he tends to harm no one other than himself.

From New York Times