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Recent Examples of boastful
Maybe a persona of boastful anger has something in common, and the two persona vectors overlap.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
City officials sounded boastful about it.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025
But the mob was discreet compared to Trump’s brazen, boastful ways.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
In the musical number, the siblings don elaborate angel wings that are too boastful to be holy.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
City officials sounded boastful about it.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025
But the mob was discreet compared to Trump’s brazen, boastful ways.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
In the musical number, the siblings don elaborate angel wings that are too boastful to be holy.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boastful
Adjective
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The Pitt definitely feels like the type of workplace where conceited doctors-in-training are pretty much guaranteed to quickly get knocked down a peg.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
8 Jan. 2026
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But Grande’s conceited blonde bubblehead gains in stature here as Glinda assumes statesmanlike responsibility to spread goodness in Oz, while experiencing crushing romantic disappointment that humbles her and deflates her vanity.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Their roles are reversed when O’Brien’s cocky, young CEO must look to McAdams’ strategic planning and survival know-how to stay alive.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
30 Jan. 2026
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But everybody’s favorite NFL linebacker is allowed to be cocky.—
Samyra,
SELF,
14 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Of the many incarnations of the narcissist, there is the braggart, and there is also the neurotic.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
6 Dec. 2025
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Thorpe is a braggart whose own extravagance is bolstered by imagining everyone else to be immensely wealthy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Their rhetoric has been bombastic.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Jan. 2026
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The film, a follow-up to her eponymous memoir, would offer a window into the first lady’s private, sphinx-like world, in contrast to that of her bombastic, spotlight-seeking husband.—
Stacy Perman,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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In the early years of his fame as a writer, Rushdie had something of a reputation for being prickly and arrogant, but Gibney’s portrait reveals a man mellowed by time and experience.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Jan. 2026
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Spock is this brilliant, arrogant, aloof-to-the-point-of-obnoxiousness genius.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
18 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The attention to amusing detail is evident throughout, from the vainglorious mayor’s ample display of chest fur to the very long wintry outfit Gary De’Snake wears in snowy conditions.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Nov. 2025
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All but the most vainglorious architects imagine that their buildings will change in some small way after completion.—
Anthony Paletta,
Curbed,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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But the dudes can take a victory lap today, celebrating the nomination of Joseph Kosinski’s swaggering, vroom-vroom sports movie.—
Glenn Whipp,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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Decades later, times may have changed, but the appeal of that swaggering style endures.—
Mark Ellwood,
Robb Report,
20 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Even though the Lions went to Chicago already eliminated from the postseason, Campbell came away with confirmation that the franchise has prideful players.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2026
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As someone who has a prideful demeanor, this can be challenging.—
Lisa Stardust,
Refinery29,
26 Dec. 2025
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“Boastful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boastful. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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