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Recent Examples of boastful
In the musical number, the siblings don elaborate angel wings that are too boastful to be holy.
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Hunter Ingram, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
Hogan, the boastful wrestling icon, film and reality TV star, was a two-time inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame.
—Sue Carswell, People.com, 24 July 2025
Murray showed his roots casually while Kanye was apocalyptically boastful.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2025
Freshly 17, the pride of Hollygrove runs through a laundry list of grievances that were gnawing at his mind, trading his typically boastful bars for tenderness and vulnerability.
—Pitchfork, 6 June 2025
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Hunter Ingram, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
Hogan, the boastful wrestling icon, film and reality TV star, was a two-time inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame.
—Sue Carswell, People.com, 24 July 2025
Murray showed his roots casually while Kanye was apocalyptically boastful.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2025
Freshly 17, the pride of Hollygrove runs through a laundry list of grievances that were gnawing at his mind, trading his typically boastful bars for tenderness and vulnerability.
—Pitchfork, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boastful
Adjective
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The kooky characters surrounding Judge Stone included the conceited prosecutor Dan Fielding (John Larroquette), the imposing bailiff Bull Shannon (Richard Moll), and the idealistic public defender Christine Sullivan (Markie Post), each of whom had various quirks of their own.—
Dan Heching,
EW.com,
28 Aug. 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
Adjective
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Liner is Reid Collins, who toes the line between confident and cocky.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
22 Sep. 2025
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Since his days as the cocky but lovable Shane Gray in Camp Rock, Joe Jonas has carved out a multifaceted career.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Sep. 2025
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Davis, who is seventy-eight, began to think of Carr, about two decades younger than him, as a bully and a braggart.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
16 Sep. 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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Opening with the bombastic Foo Fighters-esque title track, Turnstile tore through their 75-minute set with ease.—
Daniel Kohn,
Rolling Stone,
16 Sep. 2025
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Pastors mourned Kirk both as a friend who built close personal relationships with evangelical leaders and a bombastic advocate for conservative Christian causes, who openly mixed politics with religion.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
15 Sep. 2025
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Jean stepped out as Nia approached—lean and arrogant, a cigarette pinched between her lips.—
David Wright Faladé,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
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Gil, her nemesis, is hot, arrogant and unfortunately extremely kissable.—
Audrey Goldberg Ruoff,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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
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The real real thing tended to be rather different: clumsy, ad hoc, vainglorious—and secret.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
Adjective
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Plus, Jude Law brings his movie star charisma as the swaggering pirate captain Jod Na Nawood, who helps the kids find their way back home (for reasons far from mere goodwill).—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Sep. 2025
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Before there was Latin trap, Puerto Rico was transfixed by reggaetón, a swaggering style based on a loping, staccato beat known as dembow, which derives from dancehall reggae.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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He was too hurt to go, and probably too prideful.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
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For the Connecticut Sun and its fans, the past is prideful, the future is murky.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
18 Aug. 2025
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“Boastful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boastful. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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