boastfulness

noun

Definition of boastfulnessnext
as in bravado

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boastfulness
  1. bravado
  2. vainglory
  3. arrogance
  4. triumphalism
  5. braggadocio
  6. swagger
  7. bombast
  8. pomposity
Noun
  • Will Antonio Pierce, who started the season with such bravado, get another shot?
    Vic Tafur, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
  • The text messages — rife with bravado, boasts and intrigue — have fueled a scandal that has rocked the entertainment industry and spotlighted the ruthless underbelly of the Hollywood publicity machine.
    Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Definition of bravado
Noun
  • The conceit is saved from vainglory by the gravity Cage brings to the performance.
    Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • That’s the mantra for wide receivers, a group long known for their vainglory.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
Definition of vainglory
Noun
  • Trump’s Comments About The Panama Canal Trump remarked that the United States should regain control of the Panama Canal, a statement that evoked arrogance and colonialism in the past.
    Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The historical 'attitude' (arrogance) in his acting has fueled MAGA, and his endorsements of Trump are undeniably overbearing and irrational.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of arrogance
Noun
  • To highlight this fact is neither triumphalism nor complacency.
    Jude Blanchette, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
  • However, the tone of Medvedev's comments refrained from any such triumphalism, hinting that there could still be difficulties ahead.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2024
Definition of triumphalism
Noun
  • After all, marketing itself is somewhat narcissistic, with its continual cries for attention and thinly veiled braggadocio.
    Martin Kihn, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Since then, the rise of social media has been marked, among other dreadful things, by lifestyle braggadocio and algorithms fine-tuned to serve scarily relevant ads.
    Ron Lieber, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of braggadocio
Noun
  • And Åberg being a handsome freak hitting clutch shots and actually getting to show some swagger is a huge win.
    Brody Miller and Hugh Kellenberger, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Hunk of the moment Glen Powell, from nostalgia blockbusters Top Gun: Maverick and Twisters, lends his cowboy swagger in the same role the Austrian muscleman occupied.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of swagger
Noun
  • These new movies offer a new kind of spectacle, one that’s not just a matter of audiovisual bombast but that inheres in cinematic form, becomes part of a film’s narrative architecture, and creates a distinctive psychological relationship with viewers.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2024
  • But from the outside, such moments can get drowned out by the daily buffet of Trump’s outrageous bombast.
    Philip Eliott / Detroit, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of bombast
Noun
  • His boisterous persona was more comical than confrontational, a hot-air balloon of strutting pomposity punctured by his family.
    Jim McKairnes, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Lacking the pop cultural connection of Vox Lux, The Brutalist’s pomposity becomes unrelatable, if not repugnant.
    Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of pomposity
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