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Recent Examples of boastful
For some professionals, claiming credit for a workplace success might feel overly boastful or self-promotional.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Sonos opting for The Trade Desk's OS would have represented a boastful commitment to advertisers.
—Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2025
After a firehose of a first six weeks back in the White House, President Trump delivered a boastful and partisan address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night.
—Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
Once a divisive figure in the NBA because of his father’s boastful public persona, Ball was met with a standing ovation.
—Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for boastful
Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Sonos opting for The Trade Desk's OS would have represented a boastful commitment to advertisers.
—Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2025
After a firehose of a first six weeks back in the White House, President Trump delivered a boastful and partisan address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night.
—Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
Once a divisive figure in the NBA because of his father’s boastful public persona, Ball was met with a standing ovation.
—Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boastful
Adjective
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And for any fan of the show — and Wilson’s over-the-top, egotistical Dwight — the lyrics might not be a total surprise.—
Victoria Edel,
People.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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In the 1998 episode, Theroux, 53, appears briefly as an egotistical writer who flirts with Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw at a party.—
John Russell,
People.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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This is the worst kind of football team: a conceited but objectively mediocre squad.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
The Mercury News,
17 Nov. 2024
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Rory Kinnear steals some of the best lines as the conceited British prime minister, and Ato Essandoh, as Kate’s deputy chief, plays the ever-flustered man surrounded by extremely capable women with admirable humor, charm, and confidence.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
30 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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But on the occasions when the ball did find him around the box, the cocky assurance that saw him nutmeg Branthwaite en route to scoring a 29-minute hat-trick in last season’s corresponding fixture was nowhere to be seen.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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The Rock, cocky, handsome, and eager to flaunt his wealth and status, facing Stone Cold, the vicious everyman who can’t stand figures of authority.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2025
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My reference for him will always be The Office, that bombastic and un-self-aware human, and Steve could not be farther from that.—
Seija Rankin,
HollywoodReporter,
1 May 2025
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If only this film were half as funny, or bombastic.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
9 Apr. 2025
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That doesn’t portray a hero, but rather someone so arrogant as to invent his own law and appoint himself its executioner.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Apr. 2025
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Maybe so, but that’s an arrogant thing for such a young killer to say.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
5 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Ivy-as-Marilyn is an inconsiderate, amphetamine guzzling faux-intellectual whose devotion to the acting craft is presented as a vainglorious affectation.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
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The name is meant to evoke Theodore Roosevelt’s vainglorious 1898 cavalry charge up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
8 Apr. 2025
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This is a prideful team that knows it was dealt a bad hand this year.—
Colton Pouncy,
The Athletic,
31 Dec. 2024
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The Memphis Grizzlies are one of the more prideful teams in the NBA.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
14 Dec. 2024
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As the daughter of the haughty Chodron de Courcel and Brondeau d’Urtières families, Bernadette never lacks confidence.—
Armond White,
National Review,
23 Apr. 2025
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Schwarzenegger stars as the haughty, sleazy eldest son of a wealthy family whose patriarch and matriarch are portrayed by Jason Isaacs and Parker Posey, respectively.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Boastful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boastful. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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