braggy

adjective

Definition of braggynext
as in boastful

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for braggy
  1. boastful
  2. braggart
  3. conceited
  4. bombastic
  5. cocky
  6. arrogant
  7. smug
  8. vainglorious
Adjective
  • Defense witnesses pointed to boastful teens, fireworks-like flashes and uncertain ignition points, with an expert arguing that fireworks were the likely cause and that prosecutors lack proof that a lighter sparked the blaze.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2026
  • Chatter about Azik’s famous delens abounds, as does boastful talk about how Monica Bellucci’s family hails from the same part of Nalchik.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 13 May 2026
Definition of boastful
Adjective
  • Big Red might be a braggart, a bully and rotten to the core, but Lasdun invokes Thomas De Quincey’s neat point about how a man’s capacity to rob says nothing about his propensity to murder.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
  • Of the many incarnations of the narcissist, there is the braggart, and there is also the neurotic.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025
Definition of braggart
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, Johnson reprises his role as Moana's bantering reluctant partner, the shapeshifting trickster demigod Maui, alongside Jemaine Clement again voicing the conceited giant crustacean Tamatoa.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 July 2026
  • Avoid Burying Praise in Negatives To avoid making children too conceited, parents might bury praise in the midst of negatives.
    — Wayne Parker, Parents, 8 Mar. 2026
Definition of conceited
Adjective
  • This bombastic rhetoric echoes an inherent feeling of frustration in Russia over the failure to segregate Ukraine from the West.
    — Ihor N. Stelmach, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026
  • Some of these movies manage to hold viewers’ attention with bombastic action scenes that command focus on a big screen.
    — Isabel Fattal, The Atlantic, 18 July 2026
Definition of bombastic
Adjective
  • Responsible or not, Polly’s behavior is therefore at best cavalier, and at worst, especially during his police room interviews, downright cocky.
    — Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 22 July 2026
  • Lanky with striking red hair and a cocky demeanor, Clapper was dogged and respected by his fellow cops.
    — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
Definition of cocky
Adjective
  • Odysseus is a complex character known for being brilliant and crafty, but also being somewhat of an arrogant trickster.
    — Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
  • Under normal conditions, someone who’s bossy or pushy can come across as arrogant and annoying.
    — Matthew Pittman, The Conversation, 17 July 2026
Definition of arrogant
Adjective
  • Historian Sandgruber describes how Alois Hitler wrote his 1895 letters in a deeply smug, anti-clerical manner that overestimated his abilities.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 June 2026
  • Li at times plays Cola with a smug impetuousness that belies her naivety about this world to a satisfying degree.
    — Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 17 June 2026
Definition of smug
Adjective
  • Claire’s elective death therefore remains a problematic choice for some viewers, an act of vainglorious selfishness from a woman who was never terribly nice to begin with.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2026
  • Melodramatic and vainglorious, moody and capricious, a fidgety, neurotic hypochondriac, Stalin was a bundle of appalling contradictions.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Feb. 2026
Definition of vainglorious
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