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Recent Examples of boastful
Then create templates for sharing these results across different platforms (social posts, case study formats, website sections) that highlight the concrete proof of my expertise without sounding boastful.
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Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
This approach secures recognition without appearing boastful while also acknowledging collaborators.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Feeling hopeless in her quest to stop Crawford and help Delia get her life back, Elsbeth confronts the boastful judge, who is riding high on his rising star and his triumph over her.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025
And there were boastful messages about finding a way to get Europe to pay for the operation — but nothing about China, which benefits hugely from the trade passing through the straits near Yemen, including much of its oil imports and its exports to Europe.
—Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
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Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
This approach secures recognition without appearing boastful while also acknowledging collaborators.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Feeling hopeless in her quest to stop Crawford and help Delia get her life back, Elsbeth confronts the boastful judge, who is riding high on his rising star and his triumph over her.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025
And there were boastful messages about finding a way to get Europe to pay for the operation — but nothing about China, which benefits hugely from the trade passing through the straits near Yemen, including much of its oil imports and its exports to Europe.
—Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boastful
Adjective
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Such an obvious way to exhibit his egotistical personality.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
22 June 2025
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Responding to questions from defense lawyer Teny Geragos, Jane agreed that Combs became more apologetic and attentive, less egotistical and cold.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
13 June 2025
Adjective
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This is the worst kind of football team: a conceited but objectively mediocre squad.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
The Mercury News,
17 Nov. 2024
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Rory Kinnear steals some of the best lines as the conceited British prime minister, and Ato Essandoh, as Kate’s deputy chief, plays the ever-flustered man surrounded by extremely capable women with admirable humor, charm, and confidence.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
30 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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Jimmy, boyish and cocky as ever, proves a real asset thanks to his clandestine connection with Lex’s fashionista, selfie-snapping girlfriend Eve (Sara Sampaio).—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
8 July 2025
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The story itself is stripped to bone and sinew: a sleepy New England beach town that wants tourist dollars more than truth, an invisible killer in plain water, and three men — one scared sheriff, one cocky scientist, one Ahab of a fisherman — set adrift to settle nature’s score.—
Philip Martin,
Arkansas Online,
19 June 2025
Adjective
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While Obama avoided Trump’s bombastic style of media bashing, his White House still used institutional power along these lines to the fullest degree.—
Andy Meek,
Forbes.com,
3 July 2025
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Your bombastic attacks on the free press are, at best, unflattering — and at worst, undermine a core tenet of democracy.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 June 2025
Adjective
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In 2022, Ackles joined the cast of Prime Video's The Boys as arrogant superhero Soldier Boy.—
Brianne Tracy,
People.com,
4 July 2025
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Her larger-than-life ego and past as a shaman make Player 044 come off as arrogant and selfish, getting under just about everyone's skin.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
4 July 2025
Adjective
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Here, too, in the Airfix models and the vainglorious LP collection is the solitary self-curation of the only child—the kid who can’t dash from his bedroom to a sibling’s, model or record in hand.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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Donald Trump’s vainglorious birthday parade masquerading as a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army may get drenched in a rainy DC this Flag Day, but the financial sun is shining a bit brighter for some suffering Hollywood vendors.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
14 June 2025
Adjective
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The ability to recite an obscure Lloyd Banks verse earned you some prideful grins or, even better, earnest assistance with your performance.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
23 June 2025
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That's what advancing past the Denver Nuggets, a prideful former champion, required.—
Bobby Krivitsky,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
Adjective
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Santa Monica was a town in flux when Miller was in high school at the turn of the millennium: a Berkeley meets Beverly Hills where haughty affluence was rapidly eclipsing the Birkenstocks and counterculture bumper stickers.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 July 2025
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This information doesn’t make the prospect of leaving her home painless, but Ruth approaches it with a haughty dignity that soon becomes familiar.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
20 June 2025
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“Boastful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boastful. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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