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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
Silvia’s braggadocio wins her the attention of a heartthrob named Diego (Agustín Sosa) — and the wrath of local beauty Natalia (Dolores Oliverio), who has always believed that Diego was hers.
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Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2025
Social media is Trump’s territory, and its norms—insults without consequence, braggadocio, and flame wars—line up neatly with his way of doing politics.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2025
The braggadocio, the charisma and the grit underneath it all is what the city remembered of Henderson, who died at 65, days shy of his birthday on Christmas.
—Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 21 Dec. 2024
After all, marketing itself is somewhat narcissistic, with its continual cries for attention and thinly veiled braggadocio.
—Martin Kihn, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2025
Social media is Trump’s territory, and its norms—insults without consequence, braggadocio, and flame wars—line up neatly with his way of doing politics.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2025
The braggadocio, the charisma and the grit underneath it all is what the city remembered of Henderson, who died at 65, days shy of his birthday on Christmas.
—Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 21 Dec. 2024
After all, marketing itself is somewhat narcissistic, with its continual cries for attention and thinly veiled braggadocio.
—Martin Kihn, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for braggadocio
Noun
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This marks the second week in a row that the governor invited a conservative guest onto his podcast who espoused transphobic rhetoric.—
Abby Monteil,
Them,
11 Mar. 2025
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And now, as layoffs on the federal government rise, business confidence falls, and economic forecasts weaken, Wall Street—long used to Trump's market-friendly rhetoric—is being told by the president to embrace the volatility as part of a longer-term strategy.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
11 Mar. 2025
Noun
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When a person lacks humility, the deficiency will show up as being a braggart and disrespectful.—
Mary Crossan,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 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
Noun
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Loewe’s Puzzle bag, which Anderson introduced in his first collection, and which is made from soft leather cut into patchwork pieces and then stitched back together at rakish angles, is a choice non-blingy brag.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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How 'Intermezzo' sparked envy, became the galley brag of 2024 I, dear reader, am not above a galley brag.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2025
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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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The former became fighting cocks and the latter became sows.—
Matthew Gavin Frank,
Harper's Magazine,
6 June 2023
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Trump is a man whose bombast, sweeping actions, and slashing pronouncements accentuate his expansive instinctual drive.—
Robert W. Merry,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Mar. 2025
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Carr wanted to bring Broadway verve and Vegas bombast to the Academy Awards, but the stunned looks on the faces of front-row nominees who were getting glad-handed by a Disney princess indicated that Carr’s vision was an immediate catastrophe.—
Zach Schonfeld,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 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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The combat is usually riddled with party chatter and characters shouting their special moves, which creates a high-energy crescendo of sights and sounds when paired with the excellent battle music.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
18 Mar. 2025
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This set off some table-wide chatter about the most recent World Series, which the Yankees lost to the Dodgers in somewhat humiliating fashion, capped off by a disastrous error-riddled inning that saw a five-run lead evaporate in the decisive Game 5.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
17 Mar. 2025
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Reports suggest that some Republican lawmakers are frustrated with Musk’s bluster and that the DOGE approach to slashing the federal bureaucracy is angering constituents and making lawmakers less popular in their districts.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2025
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The Brooklyn lawmaker said Trump’s speech was all bluster and failed to include concrete proposals to improve the stuttering economy.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Braggadocio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/braggadocio. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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