boastfulness

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Noun
  • Noboa's blend of populist bravado, aggressive security policies, and alignment with brash Trumpian politics has positioned him, at 37, as a formidable figure in Latin America's shifting landscape.
    Jesus Mesa, Newsweek, 9 Feb. 2025
  • Every aspect is generously suffused with the kind of over-the-top bravado that survivalists, explorers, and Mad Max fans alike would enjoy.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The conceit is saved from vainglory by the gravity Cage brings to the performance.
    Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • That’s the mantra for wide receivers, a group long known for their vainglory.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • The guy the American masses met in 2009 had already worked out a sound, approaching the sad-robot pop of Ye’s 808s & Heartbreak from the chilly arrogance of boardroom Jay. Hip-hop heads didn’t always respect the swing of the pendulum, though.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Sheer arrogance, headed straight for the trash can, unopened.
    Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In Shade’s telling, 9/11 was not the end of the ’90s, as Chuck Klosterman and others have argued, but a dark chapter in an ongoing story of national triumphalism.
    Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Over two frigid days in Washington, there was a powerful sense of triumphalism, jubilation and gloating as Mr. Trump’s supporters poured into a fortresslike capital for his second inaugural.
    Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Silvia’s braggadocio wins her the attention of a heartthrob named Diego (Agustín Sosa) — and the wrath of local beauty Natalia (Dolores Oliverio), who has always believed that Diego was hers.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Social media is Trump’s territory, and its norms—insults without consequence, braggadocio, and flame wars—line up neatly with his way of doing politics.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • That seamy swagger of Jack Nicholson as über-dirtbag Randle McMurphy in Cuckoo’s Nest could have been shot here yesterday.
    Matt Thompson, SPIN, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The crude visuals showcase the wrestler's early style and swagger, very different from his style today (not to mention the '90s-era graphics).
    Angela Andaloro, People.com, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Trump has always trafficked in absurdity, but there was a time when his bombast at least had a strategic purpose.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
  • That's because the economic mood is really what seemed to matter most, and many people don't take a lot of what Trump says seriously because of his penchant for bombast and his transactional nature.
    Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • His boisterous persona was more comical than confrontational, a hot-air balloon of strutting pomposity punctured by his family.
    Jim McKairnes, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Lacking the pop cultural connection of Vox Lux, The Brutalist’s pomposity becomes unrelatable, if not repugnant.
    Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2025
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“Boastfulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boastfulness. Accessed 17 Feb. 2025.

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