braggart
Example Sentences
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With Ukraine’s population of more than 40 million — and setting aside big-talkers, braggarts and blusterers — that could mean millions of people fighting back against the 190,000 troops Putin sent to overthrow the Zelensky government.
From Los Angeles Times
He taped it the way a braggart might.
From Washington Post
I know he wasn’t truly a bad man at heart, but he was an obnoxious, know-it-all braggart.
From Washington Post
He’s a braggart — even more so than most politicians.
From Los Angeles Times
Whoever wrote the copy on the jacket flap bragged that Berger, a celebrated New York Times reporter and columnist who was no braggart himself, “knew that Broad Street was once called ‘Smell Street Lane.’”
From New York Times
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