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Recent Examples of boastful
Hogan, the boastful wrestling icon, film and reality TV star, was a two-time inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame.
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Sue Carswell, People.com, 24 July 2025
Murray showed his roots casually while Kanye was apocalyptically boastful.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2025
Freshly 17, the pride of Hollygrove runs through a laundry list of grievances that were gnawing at his mind, trading his typically boastful bars for tenderness and vulnerability.
—Pitchfork, 6 June 2025
Undeterred, Newsom has continued his boastful ways.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 5 June 2025
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Sue Carswell, People.com, 24 July 2025
Murray showed his roots casually while Kanye was apocalyptically boastful.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2025
Freshly 17, the pride of Hollygrove runs through a laundry list of grievances that were gnawing at his mind, trading his typically boastful bars for tenderness and vulnerability.
—Pitchfork, 6 June 2025
Undeterred, Newsom has continued his boastful ways.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boastful
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The kooky characters surrounding Judge Stone included the conceited prosecutor Dan Fielding (John Larroquette), the imposing bailiff Bull Shannon (Richard Moll), and the idealistic public defender Christine Sullivan (Markie Post), each of whom had various quirks of their own.—
Dan Heching,
EW.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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This is the worst kind of football team: a conceited but objectively mediocre squad.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
The Mercury News,
17 Nov. 2024
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Vinnie Barbarino Was a Standout John Travolta’s Vinnie was known for his cocky swagger and flirtatious antics.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Compliments find you with greater ease, too; with Venus, your planetary ruler, now in Leo, your magnetism is louder and your confidence reads as warm, not cocky.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
7 Sep. 2025
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Davis, who is seventy-eight, began to think of Carr, about two decades younger than him, as a bully and a braggart.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
16 Sep. 2025
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Thorpe is a braggart whose own extravagance is bolstered by imagining everyone else to be immensely wealthy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Sep. 2025
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Opening with the bombastic Foo Fighters-esque title track, Turnstile tore through their 75-minute set with ease.—
Daniel Kohn,
Rolling Stone,
16 Sep. 2025
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Pastors mourned Kirk both as a friend who built close personal relationships with evangelical leaders and a bombastic advocate for conservative Christian causes, who openly mixed politics with religion.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
15 Sep. 2025
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Zane played the arrogant Cal Hockley, who was engaged to Jack's love interest, Rose (played by Kate Winslet).—
Virginia Chamlee,
People.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Hardly seems like enough to cow these arrogant companies into behaving, especially when their business model is so intrinsically tied to hoovering up other people’s information and creative work.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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All but the most vainglorious architects imagine that their buildings will change in some small way after completion.—
Anthony Paletta,
Curbed,
2 Sep. 2025
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The real real thing tended to be rather different: clumsy, ad hoc, vainglorious—and secret.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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Advertisement Gudsen's fractured identity—swaggering machismo versus devoted family man—might suggest dissociative identity disorder, but Lehane resists reducing him to a clinical label.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
15 Aug. 2025
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Though long celebrated as one of our most versatile screen stars, four-time Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe might not seem like the obvious choice to portray a swaggering, playboy billionaire modeled on Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
5 Aug. 2025
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For the Connecticut Sun and its fans, the past is prideful, the future is murky.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
18 Aug. 2025
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Admittedly, that’s attributable less to Kahn himself — who remains as prideful and abrasive as ever, only now with a noticeably different voice — than the narrative function his character serves.—
Genevieve Koski,
Vulture,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Boastful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boastful. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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