braggart
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- noun
- /ˈbræɡərt/
- Offensive
- Nobody likes to listen to a braggart who constantly talks about his wealth and status.
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Watch on YouTubeSo don't be boring, don't be a braggart and and you'll know because people be turned off.
- So don't be boring, don't be a braggart and and you'll know because people be turned off.
- My greatest faults, being a braggart and a bluffer, have yielded me countless advantages.
- So what are your rules for sort of either breaking down the braggart or maybe you're not, or boosting up the mouse?
Examples
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Pistol, no longer a mere braggart and cut-purse, emerges as a pathetic figure and a serious social commentator.
Academic text (1991) -
For failing to develop a vaccine or a cure for HIV, Watts denounces Western scientists as "incompetent braggarts, parading under false colors."
Academic text (1998) -
And yet, dear lady, rating myself at nothing, you shall see how much I was a braggart.
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And, of course, a braggart with power is a bully.
Academic text (1992) -
What an arrogant braggart I am!
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You've become a braggart, and it's not attractive.
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He's just an old braggart, that's all he is.
Fiction book (1990) -
But under the relentless light of the personality tests, he showed himself to be nothing but a dreamer and a braggart, completely self-obsessed.
Fiction book (2002) -
My greatest faults, being a braggart and a bluffer, have yielded me countless advantages.
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A monster of depravity: liar, cheat, lecher, murderer; vain, greedy, treacherous, ungrateful, a poltroon, a braggart.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
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A person who talks too much and brags about themselves
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A person who thinks they are better than others and often talks about themselves
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4.4
A person who talks too proudly about their successes or things they own
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4.9
A person who talks proudly about their success or things they own
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7.9
A person who shows off to get attention
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A person who is too proud and thinks they know more than others
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A person who brags loudly to get attention
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A person who walks and acts very confidently, often bragging
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A person who often brags about what they have done in a proud way
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A person who behaves proudly and brags about themselves
A person who boasts in a loud, proud way
A person who brags a lot and tells stories that are not true
How Boastful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Braggart comes from the short verb brag, meaning 'to boast', plus the ending -ard that names a person, as in drunkard. So a braggart is someone who brags too much and likes to show off.