braggart

Example Sentences

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A fast talker who exudes confidence but isn’t a braggart, Newman looks far younger than 49.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 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

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

He taped it the way a braggart might.

From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 2021

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

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston