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

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

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

Also, panderers, seducers, traffickers in flattery, false prophets, braggarts and thieves.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2021

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

From Washington Times ● Oct. 18, 2020

This is the moment, Your Highness, that you might as well reveal our plan to all of the noble sneaks, eaves-droppers, braggarts, blowhards, and backstabbers who surround your throne.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin