braggadocios

plural of braggadocio
as in braggarts
someone who boasts the swaggering braggadocio is a stock figure of American folklore, with Davy Crockett and Mike Fink being prime examples

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Noun
  • Or the skewering and scathing kind from social media, where everyone’s a target by armchair quarterback blowhards, including over four mixed starts at Arizona State in 2023.
    Joe Davidosn, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Many of those findings will be contrary to the interests of the blowhards who, at least temporarily, control our nation, and so they may be suppressed for the moment.
    Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
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  • Aronofsky’s take on this material is, to borrow a term from the game that’s both Hank’s obsession and a reminder of his failure, a straight-down-the-middle pitch compared to his usual mind blowers.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Two other anonymous whistle-blowers then came forward with further allegations about Bove.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
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“Braggadocios.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/braggadocios. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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