boastfulness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for boastfulness
Noun
  • In the film, Zenovich attempts to bring viewers into Chase’s inner world through interviews with his family, friends and co-stars, revealing what is beneath the surface of his bravado.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
  • And unlike other trinkets that Trump secured through bravado and bluster, the international panel did not bend.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • On Saturday, on the streets of Washington, Donald Trump will throw himself a costly and ostentatious military parade, a gaudy display of waste and vainglory staged solely to inflate the president’s dirigible-sized ego.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025
  • The conceit is saved from vainglory by the gravity Cage brings to the performance.
    Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
Noun
  • Professional arrogance, that is, that pushed Atkinson to exceed everybody’s expectations … except his own.
    Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • True to his overconfidence-bordering-on-arrogance nature, new intern Wes earlier in the episode did not follow instructions and attended to patients without permission.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Recent scholarship about the holiday marks a departure from the celebration of settler triumphalism once encapsulated in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1937 proclamation of Columbus Day.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The result was a startling spectacle of religious and political triumphalism.
    Michael Luo, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The album is a hot mess of conflicted emotions, empty braggadocio, poor technique, and heartbreaking yet tiresome crying jags.
    Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The first singles from Carey’s 16th album are dripping with braggadocio with her inimitable voice wafting like smoke.
    Matthew Schnipper, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Sadat’s gesture belongs to another age, when courage meant accepting risk rather than projecting swagger.
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The character had to walk into a room with charisma, intelligence and the swagger of one of the greatest musicians of all time.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • However, in the wrong hands, being silent can signal disdain and superciliousness.
    Matteo Atti, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Townshend-esque vibe is much stronger on Argent's original version of this song, but Kiss' reinvention is a vast improvement, weeding out the prog-rock bombast while venturing into Mott the Hoople territory.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Those blockbusters happen to an audience, flattening them with a bombast their living rooms can’t replicate.
    Robert Rubsam, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Boastfulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boastfulness. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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