bragger
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He was a genuine guy, not a bragger or anything like that,” remembered Weldon.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2022
Mostly, I feel angry when I hear about one of her achievements, even though she’s not a bragger.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
I am firmly of the opinion that LaVar Ball is an overbearing colossal bragger whose only concern is his own self-aggrandizement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2017
She wasn't a bragger, like Norman Mailer, or a misanthrope like J.D.
From US News ● Feb. 19, 2016
I ain’t being no bragger when I say I ain’t never seent no handsomer lad in my whole life!
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
AS A PARENT, I find the unspoken reason this topic elicits such passion is that the same feeling underlies both the braggers and the antibraggers: fear.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2013
But the prevalence of social media has given us many more canvases on which to paint our faux humility — making us, in turn, increasingly sophisticated braggers.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2012
Winning the braggers Cup heaps prestige upon the winners and shame amongst the losers.
From Time Magazine Archive
For whom do they choose but such as be rich or bear some office in the country, many times such as be boasters and braggers?
From Henry VIII. by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
Dear children, though you're winners, Be modest all; For pride must fall, And braggers lose their dinners.'
From Miss Elliot's Girls Stories of Beasts, Birds, and Butterflies by Corning, Mary Spring
