braggart

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

Filmmakers picked up on her eccentric, mannered style and the so-called “Maggie Smith character” — the class-fixated braggart she perfected — was born.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024

What’s more, in the Spy magazine era, Mr. Trump was just a local nuisance, a braggart presiding over a foundering casino-hotel empire.

From Salon ● Feb. 9, 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

Those people have now got me down for a braggart and a liar.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

Service to fellow wine lovers is clearly key in r/wine—a refreshing change from platforms like Instagram, where bottle-shot braggarts abound.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

Rodell's team found similar results when surveying an additional 218 real-life employees about their experiences with stress braggarts.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024

“He just did not suffer fools, braggarts, or idiots well.”

From Washington Times ● Oct. 18, 2020

You’re in an underworld of informants and braggarts, and you can’t tell when people are bragging about being involved.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2016

Unless a group of little girls chanted some especially clever riddle, my mother, who distrusts people with public concerns, braggarts, went over to the quiet older girls with the dignified bows.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston