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as in rhetoric
boastful speech or writing
his braggadocio hid the fact that he felt personally inadequate
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as in braggart
someone who boasts
the swaggering braggadocio is a stock figure of American folklore, with Davy Crockett and Mike Fink being prime examples
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Recent Examples of braggadocio
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.
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Ron Lieber, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
Cardo’s woozy production aided Amine’s syrupy chorus and led to more braggadocios bars from the 30-year-old.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 25 Nov. 2024
But one of the players who did attend, and who enjoyed seeing Lyles back up all that braggadocio in a race won by a remarkable five one-thousandths of a second over Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson, was Phoenix Suns star Devin Booker.
—Sam Amick, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
There were no pretensions of showmanship, no displays of braggadocio — just the hollow ringing of palms on goatskin.
—Taran Dugal, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2024
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Ron Lieber, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
Cardo’s woozy production aided Amine’s syrupy chorus and led to more braggadocios bars from the 30-year-old.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 25 Nov. 2024
But one of the players who did attend, and who enjoyed seeing Lyles back up all that braggadocio in a race won by a remarkable five one-thousandths of a second over Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson, was Phoenix Suns star Devin Booker.
—Sam Amick, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
There were no pretensions of showmanship, no displays of braggadocio — just the hollow ringing of palms on goatskin.
—Taran Dugal, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for braggadocio
Noun
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Medvedev's comments, posted to Telegram on Saturday, suggested that Vance's rhetoric took European leaders by surprise and aligned with Russian criticisms of Western democracies.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
15 Feb. 2025
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However, Baird’s Mayfield noted that traders will likely be kept on their toes in regards to trade policy, and will have to learn to live with the uncertainty around the president’s rhetoric on trade.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
14 Feb. 2025
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He’s swept away in a sea of raves MILAN — Giorgio Armani is not a very good braggart.—
Tonya Blazio-Licorish,
WWD,
17 Oct. 2024
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Researchers also studied real-life workplace braggarts and found their colleagues often perceived them negatively.—
Megan Cerullo,
CBS News,
28 May 2024
Noun
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The humble brag is a new shiny toy for some people.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
5 Dec. 2024
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The brag quickly caught the attention of Swift fans across social media, who rushed to attack Spector while defending Swift.—
Jackson Thompson,
Fox News,
19 Nov. 2024
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Close-ups of hand jobs, spread asses, and hard cocks are difficult, however, to overlook.—
Richard Meyer,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2025
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In the rank and file of men showering the cocks and balls took on the air almost of an independent species, exhibited in instructive contrasts.—
Charles McGrath,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2024
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The country will be served another helping of his bombast for the next four years.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Jan. 2025
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In many ways, the letter that President-elect Donald J. Trump’s criminal defense lawyers sent to the Justice Department this week was a display of legal and political bombast.—
Alan Feuer,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
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Much of that singularity was centered in McCarthy’s prose, which ricocheted—sometimes gracefully, sometimes jarringly—between gruff matter-of-factness and soaring, biblical grandiloquence.—
Alex Shephard,
The New Republic,
13 June 2023
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Several of them can fly, and all have at least a touch of grandiloquence to them.—
Michael Nordine,
Variety,
11 Aug. 2022
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When the crowd broke into chatter and shocked reactions, Gomez hung her head.—
Kaitlyn Huamani,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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In Lorne Michaels’ world, a little loose chatter goes a long way.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
10 Feb. 2025
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If Trump’s musings are really aimed at bullying the Canadian government into trade concessions, then his bellicose bluster is self-defeating.—
Lawrence B.A. Hatter / Made by History,
TIME,
4 Feb. 2025
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There is barely time to think about which bag to grab on your way out the door to safety and no real way to sort the credible threats from the bluster and theater.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Braggadocio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/braggadocio. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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