braggart
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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
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
"He was just some braggart saying, 'I'm D.B. Cooper,' you know?"
From Salon • Jul. 18, 2022
“A braggart of a man,” her father said after the landlord left, and then he said nothing else.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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