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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
There were no pretensions of showmanship, no displays of braggadocio — just the hollow ringing of palms on goatskin.
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Taran Dugal, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2024
Its lyrics dabble in and dart out of classic rap tropes; braggadocio has its situational benefits, but so does investigating and upending the inequities and insecurities that draw the behavior out.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
After treating the divas to a lovely performance on harp, the gofer can’t resist a bit of braggadocio.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
Stitched together, the mash-up of Jay’s braggadocio and Chester’s bare emotion isn’t lyrically coherent, but somehow the tones make sense together.
—Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 20 Nov. 2024
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Taran Dugal, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2024
Its lyrics dabble in and dart out of classic rap tropes; braggadocio has its situational benefits, but so does investigating and upending the inequities and insecurities that draw the behavior out.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
After treating the divas to a lovely performance on harp, the gofer can’t resist a bit of braggadocio.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
Stitched together, the mash-up of Jay’s braggadocio and Chester’s bare emotion isn’t lyrically coherent, but somehow the tones make sense together.
—Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 20 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for braggadocio
Noun
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However, much of the rhetoric online around looters seems steeped in racist sentiment.CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2025
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In this upcoming moment of truth for Illinois, the speaker has the opportunity to give power to that rhetoric, which many on the GOP side don’t believe for a minute.The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 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
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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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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 story is told from Dah’s perspective, as Jocelyn—who displays a quasi-mystical rapport with fighting cocks—suffers an emotional breakdown, putting their business and their lives in danger.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 26 July 2024
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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
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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
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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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Using Cell Phones with Reckless Abandon While the ballpark is filled with cheers and chatter, nobody wants to be seated next to the person who’s loudly carrying on a phone conversation in the middle of it—or have to dodge the hundredth selfie snapped by the person in front of them.Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2025
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The compressed size of the court and the smaller arena mean players — and fans — will be able to hear much more on-court chatter.Remy Tumin, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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Most of the psychological handwringing is thus offloaded to Garner, who proves that her terrified facial expressions are truly top shelf, and the switch of perspectives is an interesting pivot from the usual how-do-I-tame-my-inner-predator bluster.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025
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The results, which are beautifully austere, flooded by sunlight but somehow cold, infuriate Van Buren, played with a masculine bluster by Guy Pearce, who sounds as if his idea of the Breakfast of Champions was a bowl of ground glass drowned in whole milk.Tom Gliatto, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
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“Braggadocio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/braggadocio. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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