as in boasting
to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess
the Baron Münchhausen was so notorious for gasconading about his purported exploits as soldier and hunter that his name has become synonymous with the telling of tall tales
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Despite boasting one of the highest payrolls in baseball, New York failed to reach the postseason, closing out the regular season with an 83-79 record.—
Shaun McAvoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Nov. 2025 -
In 2013, after seeing the sweaters’ popularity among customers, Turner took his business off the road and into his first brick-and-mortar holiday pop-up shop, boasting an inventory of 10,000 sweaters.—
Tiney Ricciardi,
Denver Post,
6 Nov. 2025
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Snyder, who has since penned a letter to the San Francisco Chronicle bragging about his Dungeons & Dragons skills, is awaiting trial separately at the Stanton Correctional Facility.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Oct. 2025
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California has slipped a notch in the bragging-rights totem pole to the world’s fifth-largest economy in the latest update on global business output.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Gasconading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gasconading. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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