braggart

Example Sentences

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Look, he’s everything our mothers told us not to be: a bully, braggart, whiner, liar and name-caller.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 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

Sonny Barger, 83, the bigger-than-life godfather of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, equal parts brawler, bully, braggart, rule breaker and shrewd huckster of his own outlaw mystique, died Wednesday at his home in California.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 2022

I know he wasn’t truly a bad man at heart, but he was an obnoxious, know-it-all braggart.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2021

He was a poser, a braggart, and a tyrant.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston