braggadocio
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But the most likely outcome is that people will brush these warnings aside and answer them with braggadocio of the type “America is not for sale.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
Oracle’s ups and downs reflect his unparalleled vision and singular skill set, as well as his braggadocio and blind spots.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
This latest combination of vanity whining and braggadocio bombast was greeted from Congress, members of his staff, reporters and members of the general public with mostly wide, tired stares.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2025
His bombast and braggadocio betray a subtle flinch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
He looks like a rock star, but he has none of a rock star’s swagger and braggadocio and staginess.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
Elvie Ellis navigates “On the Deck of a Spanish Sailing Ship, 1492” with authority, then pivots from braggadocios to soul-baring as a budding basketball star with a dark past in “The Steam Train.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2021
“I’m a jealous boy, really feel like John Lennon,” he sang in “All Girls Are the Same,” in a mopey voice that could veer from downcast mumble to braggadocios rap.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2019
Don’t feel that only braggadocios apply for awards; if you’re an expert in your industry, you deserve to be recognized.
From Forbes ● Feb. 13, 2013
Bolt gave that interview to Linford Christie, and the story is reminiscent of Christie's era, when 100m sprinters were all swaggering braggadocios, swapping sharp words off the track and gimlet-eyed stares on it.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2012
Among these are persons who bear the term of Iena-dizze- wug, that is, wanderers about the country, braggadocios, or fops.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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