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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
Some of the braggadocio Bregman displayed during the previous two seasons disappeared, but his behind-the-scenes leadership did not.
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Chandler Rome, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025
At the same time, his braggadocio stirred an excitement that hadn’t been seen for any boxer in years.
—Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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Chandler Rome, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025
At the same time, his braggadocio stirred an excitement that hadn’t been seen for any boxer in years.
—Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for braggadocio
Noun
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Opponents argue the laws sanction discrimination and the exclusion of a vulnerable minority group and that rhetoric produced in these debates can stigmatize the transgender community.—
Sam Gringlas,
NPR,
10 May 2025
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But despite hope for mediation, rhetoric turned personal Friday when NJ Transit President Kris Kollouri took a swipe at Haas’ memory.—
Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
9 May 2025
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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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The Picture of Dorian Gray review: Sarah Snook stuns in slick reinvention of Oscar Wilde's cautionary tale The biggest jolts of energy come from Murrow’s push-and-pull meetings with CBS president William F. Paley (played in full bombast mode by Paul Gross).—
EW.com,
EW.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Donald Trump is threatening to use economic force to annex Canada, and Canadians are expected to go to the polls within weeks to decide who will guard the net—Carney or Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, whose populist bombast is unusually intense for Canadian politics.—
Stephen Maher,
TIME,
9 Mar. 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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There has been a lot of chatter on the internet and social media in recent weeks that ALDI’s Summit Diet Cola is just as good, or even better, than the original.—
Jenna Sims,
Southern Living,
3 May 2025
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His dramas, rarely built on tightly interlocking shards of plot, are instead propelled by ambient forces: blasts of music, gusts of chatter.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
2 May 2025
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The bluster, the flip-flopping, the tariffs slapped on islands inhabited only by penguins — these are all moments.—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Perhaps Thursday’s threat was just a bit of bluster from a president prone to tantrums — a one-off social media post that his more stable advisers will surely try to rein in to avoid an all-out panic.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Braggadocio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/braggadocio. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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