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as in rhetoric
boastful speech or writing
his braggadocio hid the fact that he felt personally inadequate
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as in braggart
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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Recent Examples of braggadocio
The braggadocio, the charisma and the grit underneath it all is what the city remembered of Henderson, who died at 65, days shy of his birthday on Christmas.
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Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 21 Dec. 2024
After all, marketing itself is somewhat narcissistic, with its continual cries for attention and thinly veiled braggadocio.
—Martin Kihn, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Since then, the rise of social media has been marked, among other dreadful things, by lifestyle braggadocio and algorithms fine-tuned to serve scarily relevant ads.
—Ron Lieber, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
Cardo’s woozy production aided Amine’s syrupy chorus and led to more braggadocios bars from the 30-year-old.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 25 Nov. 2024
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Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 21 Dec. 2024
After all, marketing itself is somewhat narcissistic, with its continual cries for attention and thinly veiled braggadocio.
—Martin Kihn, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Since then, the rise of social media has been marked, among other dreadful things, by lifestyle braggadocio and algorithms fine-tuned to serve scarily relevant ads.
—Ron Lieber, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
Cardo’s woozy production aided Amine’s syrupy chorus and led to more braggadocios bars from the 30-year-old.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 25 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for braggadocio
Noun
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This could be reflected in Putin's rhetoric moving forward.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
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The portfolio is better positioned to handle volatility if rhetoric escalates from here.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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He’s swept away in a sea of raves MILAN — Giorgio Armani is not a very good braggart.—
Tonya Blazio-Licorish,
WWD,
17 Oct. 2024
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Researchers also studied real-life workplace braggarts and found their colleagues often perceived them negatively.—
Megan Cerullo,
CBS News,
28 May 2024
Noun
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The humble brag is a new shiny toy for some people.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
5 Dec. 2024
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The brag quickly caught the attention of Swift fans across social media, who rushed to attack Spector while defending Swift.—
Jackson Thompson,
Fox News,
19 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Close-ups of hand jobs, spread asses, and hard cocks are difficult, however, to overlook.—
Richard Meyer,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2025
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In the rank and file of men showering the cocks and balls took on the air almost of an independent species, exhibited in instructive contrasts.—
Charles McGrath,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2024
Noun
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The country will be served another helping of his bombast for the next four years.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Jan. 2025
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In many ways, the letter that President-elect Donald J. Trump’s criminal defense lawyers sent to the Justice Department this week was a display of legal and political bombast.—
Alan Feuer,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
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Much of that singularity was centered in McCarthy’s prose, which ricocheted—sometimes gracefully, sometimes jarringly—between gruff matter-of-factness and soaring, biblical grandiloquence.—
Alex Shephard,
The New Republic,
13 June 2023
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Several of them can fly, and all have at least a touch of grandiloquence to them.—
Michael Nordine,
Variety,
11 Aug. 2022
Noun
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Just a few years ago, as investors dove into beauty at an unprecedented pace, much of the chatter in the industry was focused on the billion-dollar brand — sales wise.—
Kathryn Hopkins,
WWD,
21 Feb. 2025
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Wilson and Broccoli have traditionally done little to shoot down this chatter.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2025
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Agency officials should try not to get caught up in Trump’s bluster.—
Peter Schroeder,
Foreign Affairs,
17 Jan. 2025
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Alas, much of the dialogue has thus far been dominated by fact-free political bluster.—
Sammy Roth,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Braggadocio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/braggadocio. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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