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Recent Examples of boastful
City officials sounded boastful about it.
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The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025
But the mob was discreet compared to Trump’s brazen, boastful ways.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
In the musical number, the siblings don elaborate angel wings that are too boastful to be holy.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
Hogan, the boastful wrestling icon, film and reality TV star, was a two-time inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame.
—Sue Carswell, People.com, 24 July 2025
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The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025
But the mob was discreet compared to Trump’s brazen, boastful ways.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
In the musical number, the siblings don elaborate angel wings that are too boastful to be holy.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
Hogan, the boastful wrestling icon, film and reality TV star, was a two-time inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame.
—Sue Carswell, People.com, 24 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boastful
Adjective
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The kooky characters surrounding Judge Stone included the conceited prosecutor Dan Fielding (John Larroquette), the imposing bailiff Bull Shannon (Richard Moll), and the idealistic public defender Christine Sullivan (Markie Post), each of whom had various quirks of their own.—
Dan Heching,
EW.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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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
Adjective
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Don’t come on too hard or cocky; give practical reasons that showcase how your experience will benefit the company.—
Lisa Stardust,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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But their terrific new Some Like It Hot is even cockier, steamier, more insistent — one of the year’s kickiest indie-rock thrillers.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Davis, who is seventy-eight, began to think of Carr, about two decades younger than him, as a bully and a braggart.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
16 Sep. 2025
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Thorpe is a braggart whose own extravagance is bolstered by imagining everyone else to be immensely wealthy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Could the wound spring of questioning and longing and relationship anxiety sound bombastic, or fun, or like an ’80s pop song?—
Eric Torres,
Pitchfork,
20 Oct. 2025
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His bombastic style, unfiltered rhetoric, and policy disruptions galvanized the Republican base while triggering a seismic reaction among Democrats.—
Nafees Alam,
Boston Herald,
18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Three or four decades ago, the newspaperman was appealingly raffish—at once a bum who drank too much and a knight-errant who charged unafraid at social injustice, succored the weak, and crossed lances with the powerful and arrogant.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Elsewhere, the details lifted from the book suffer in translation – Branagh’s Victor is appropriately arrogant but not adequately tortured; De Niro’s Monster is sensitive and intuitive, but drowns in the film’s hurried, hollow second half.—
Rory Doherty,
Vulture,
20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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All but the most vainglorious architects imagine that their buildings will change in some small way after completion.—
Anthony Paletta,
Curbed,
2 Sep. 2025
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The real real thing tended to be rather different: clumsy, ad hoc, vainglorious—and secret.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
Adjective
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Their mother began a relationship with a swaggering alcoholic, their future stepfather, who mocked Scott for being soft.—
Eren Orbey,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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His swaggering boots remained powerfully on.—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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There was no backlash to Ceferin’s words, no prideful defensiveness.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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Our elderly are hurting & too prideful to say anything.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Boastful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boastful. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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