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Recent Examples of boastful
Putin posing topless is the viral version of this public peacocking, but casual misogyny, carefully staged photo ops, and boastful, hypermasculine rhetoric also fit the bill.
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Erica Chenoweth, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2022
In Finnish society, displays of happiness are often discouraged to avoid seeming boastful.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025
For some professionals, claiming credit for a workplace success might feel overly boastful or self-promotional.
—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
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Erica Chenoweth, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2022
In Finnish society, displays of happiness are often discouraged to avoid seeming boastful.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025
For some professionals, claiming credit for a workplace success might feel overly boastful or self-promotional.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boastful
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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
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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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Try to go from intimate fragile solos to bombastic group moments.—
A.D. Amorosi,
Variety,
7 May 2025
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The president’s economic policies and bombastic comments have placed a strain on the relationship, and since Donald Trump took office earlier this year, tensions have swelled between the U.S. and one of its largest trading partners.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
7 May 2025
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For example, when a man in his sixties talks about the same thing, he’s seen as calm and logical, but when a woman in her twenties talks about it, she’s seen as arrogant or trying to act mature.—
Billboard Japan,
Billboard,
15 May 2025
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By losing some of its arrogant charm, Doom has also lost the means to back it up.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
15 May 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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Employees tend to react negatively when engaging with prideful leaders, and feeling ignored can impact loyalty, engagement and productivity.—
Richard Polak,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2025
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As this lunar phase takes place in Leo — one of the most expressive and prideful in the zodiac — the energy really cranks up.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
2 May 2025
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Remember the times when United, with all their haughty ambitions, used to look down on the clunky Thursday-Sunday routine of Europe’s second-tier competition?—
Daniel Taylor,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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Widowed twice, Etheldreda is left to care for her own two children, her haughty stepdaughter, and a peregrine falcon.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
13 May 2025
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“Boastful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boastful. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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