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Recent Examples of boastful
Emmanwori speaks with a matter-of-fact confidence that’s not boastful.
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Jerry McDonald,
Mercury News,
4 Feb. 2026
Follow up with clear documentation and updates so your efforts are visible but not boastful.
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Sho Dewan,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
Laemmle, footing the bill for these sumptuous methods, saw an opportunity to position Universal as a spare-no-expense enterprise, with a billboard in Times Square keeping boastful track of the ever-mounting budget.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2026
Composers Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss employ the styles of contemporary pop divas like Britney Spears and Lizzo for the boastful, cutting songs.
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Manuel Mendoza,
Dallas Morning News,
16 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for boastful
Jerry McDonald,
Mercury News,
4 Feb. 2026
Follow up with clear documentation and updates so your efforts are visible but not boastful.
—
Sho Dewan,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
Laemmle, footing the bill for these sumptuous methods, saw an opportunity to position Universal as a spare-no-expense enterprise, with a billboard in Times Square keeping boastful track of the ever-mounting budget.
—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2026
Composers Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss employ the styles of contemporary pop divas like Britney Spears and Lizzo for the boastful, cutting songs.
—
Manuel Mendoza,
Dallas Morning News,
16 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for boastful
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boastful
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Avoid Burying Praise in Negatives To avoid making children too conceited, parents might bury praise in the midst of negatives.
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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.
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Sipos as Dean, the life of the party, confident bordering on cocky.
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The city had a thriving poker scene in the early two-thousands, with enormous jackpots exchanging hands in empty warehouses and office parks, and Pughsley quickly earned a reputation for being loud and cocky.
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Big Red might be a braggart, a bully and rotten to the core, but Lasdun invokes Thomas De Quincey’s neat point about how a man’s capacity to rob says nothing about his propensity to murder.
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Of the many incarnations of the narcissist, there is the braggart, and there is also the neurotic.
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There’s a strange irony—though, perhaps, little surprise—that this is how the bombastic Tory politico is now spending his time.
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The show has evolved over its long tenure, but its bombastic 50th season managed to both capture the spirit of the show's origins and honor its long legacy.
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The passage is incoherent, yet, in conflating progressive reform with arrogant blind faith, it is perfectly suited to Vance’s cynical conservatism.
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To no one’s surprise, Bonnie is immediately transfixed by her Lilypad (voiced by Greta Lee, whose arrogant smarm effectively threads the needle between Maya Hawke’s Anxiety and Regina George’s everything else).
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Claire’s elective death therefore remains a problematic choice for some viewers, an act of vainglorious selfishness from a woman who was never terribly nice to begin with.
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All but the most vainglorious architects imagine that their buildings will change in some small way after completion.
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The clip of Cawley speaking about Marsch was used to highlight what some believe is the downside of Marsch’s swaggering attitude.
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Lander, who became beloved by DSA members after helping Mamdani beat Cuomo, worked with the mayor’s ad team for a campaign that effectively turned them into a comedy duo — a dorky Jewish dad and a swaggering Muslim mayor, both critical of the Israeli government.
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Other Saturday highlights included an indie throwback set from Passion Pit, a prideful performance from Rainbow Kitten Surprise, powerful vocals from Teddy Swims in the rain and dance music energy from Rüfüs Du Sol.
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Beginning with the pilot, there’s also been an appealing restlessness to Kate, a loose physicality and prideful disregard for glamour.
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“Boastful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boastful. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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