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Recent Examples of boastful
Once a divisive figure in the NBA because of his father’s boastful public persona, Ball was met with a standing ovation.
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Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2025
The key is to strike a balance between being too humble and coming across as merely boastful.
—John Hall, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
The reputation that Rickey Henderson engendered over his decades in the game was of a proud and often boastful player.
—Sam Blum, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
Image On eve of inaugural, Trump vowed to end ‘American decline’
Donald Trump held a boastful, campaign-style rally at an arena in downtown Washington on the eve of his second inauguration.
—Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
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Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2025
The key is to strike a balance between being too humble and coming across as merely boastful.
—John Hall, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
The reputation that Rickey Henderson engendered over his decades in the game was of a proud and often boastful player.
—Sam Blum, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
Image On eve of inaugural, Trump vowed to end ‘American decline’
Donald Trump held a boastful, campaign-style rally at an arena in downtown Washington on the eve of his second inauguration.
—Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boastful
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In the 1998 episode, Theroux, 53, appears briefly as an egotistical writer who flirts with Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw at a party.—
John Russell,
People.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Yes: Crumb’s work is egotistical, misogynist, racist—or, more generously, a feculent parody.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harper's Magazine,
3 Mar. 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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Rory Kinnear steals some of the best lines as the conceited British prime minister, and Ato Essandoh, as Kate’s deputy chief, plays the ever-flustered man surrounded by extremely capable women with admirable humor, charm, and confidence.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
30 Oct. 2024
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Before that storm has even passed, for example, cocky doc Tom Cole (Pennyworth‘s Jack Bannon) manages to get wrapped up in a love triangle with two female colleagues, planting kisses on them in separate wings of the hospital.—
Rebecca Luther,
TVLine,
3 Apr. 2025
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Read more: Friends and Admirers Pay Tribute to Hollywood ‘Icon’ Val Kilmer In 1986, in only his fourth movie role, Kilmer played a cocky pilot who easily intimidated even Tom Cruise’s smirky-confident hotshot Maverick, but even then, his macho swagger was roguish and playful.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
2 Apr. 2025
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That's not to say that Vigilantes is entirely without its big, bombastic action scenes.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Apr. 2025
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Loading your audio article SAN FRANCISCO — As bombastic as Draymond Green’s championship aspirations have been, his assessment that the Warriors still have a long way to go is as honest.—
Danny Emerman,
The Mercury News,
14 Mar. 2025
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Ava Daniels is a young comedy writer who is unable to find work due to an insensitive tweet and her reputation for being self-centered and arrogant.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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And the villains, of course, exuding every nastily relatable emotion; the stepmothers and sorceresses are vain, arrogant, dismissive, lonely, rude, and outrageous.—
Darren Franich,
Vulture,
26 Mar. 2025
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Daemon, Viserys’s vainglorious younger brother, had married his niece in part as a way to strengthen his own bid for the throne, and Alicent had pushed for the ascension of her immature firstborn, Aegon.—
Inkoo Kang,
The New Yorker,
5 Aug. 2024
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Debuting March 3, the six-part realpolitik satire, created and executive produced by Succession alum Will Tracy, sees Oscar and Emmy winner Winslet return to HBO in an often hilarious role as the vainglorious Elena.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
20 June 2024
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Working in the courthouse is also a prideful experience for those who have been there many years, like bailiff Suzie Piazza of Valparaiso, who was hired by the late Judge Mary Harper and is in her 28th year working in the building.—
Deena Butterfield,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Mar. 2025
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That, again, was a bridge too far for the prideful former player.—
Dan Freedman,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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The newcomers to their abode are Jerry, a hunky Mormon flight attendant (Bomer), and Arthur, a haughty fashion doyen recently fired from Vogue (Graham).—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2025
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Just when things are looking up — a haughty British couple leaves this daughter of Oxfordshire a handsome tip — the dinner pervert turns up for his morning coffee.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2025
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“Boastful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boastful. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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