(v. i.) To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boast; -- often followed by of; as, to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends to do.
(v. t.) To boast of.
(n.) A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretense or self glorification.
(n.) The thing which is boasted of.
(n.) A game at cards similar to bluff.
(v. i.) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
(adv.) Proudly; boastfully.
Example Sentences:
(1) You’re only going to North Korea just so you can brag about it when you return home.
(2) The funniest thing is when I saw some people who bragged about their trip to Pyongyang.
(3) O’Malley bragged about his efforts cracking down on corruption in the city police department and efforts to push for an effective civilian review board in Baltimore.
(4) Osborne moved to block that too, channelling his inner Occupy activist as he bragged about the way he was sticking it to the “1%”.
(5) RF Rapids wait 7 years and 62 minutes to regain local bragging rights Colorado Rapids ended Saturday night in third place in the West, three points behind leaders Real Salt Lake, but crucially for them, they also ended up in possession of the Rocky Mountain Cup, after coming from behind twice to tie up the game with Real Salt Lake and take the series for the first time in seven years.
(6) Since a tape was released of Trump bragging about grabbing women “by the pussy”, nine women have come forward with accusations that he groped them without consent.
(7) And I can’t believe that I’m saying that a candidate for president of the United States has bragged about sexually assaulting women.
(8) Imitating the white, vaudeville television love-to-hate wrestler Gorgeous George, his forecasts bragged the precise round he was going to win, sometimes combining such box-office larks with couplets of doggerel.
(9) However, with this one desperate win the Nets maintain city-wide bragging rights over the Knicks who have failed to put together a single victory in the last seven days.
(10) When Modi brags about his 56-inch chest , his machismo indicates India’s arrival in world affairs.
(11) The FBI believes Ulbricht, who graduated from the University of Texas in 2006, may have obliquely bragged about his alleged role as “Dread Pirate Roberts” on LinkedIn, where he had referred to spending the last few years “creating an economic simulation”.
(12) And I’m in control of doing the things that he wants me to do in the campaign.” When Trump, who has often bragged about being “a counter-puncher”, went after the Khans, no one inside the camp was quick enough to spot the controversy.
(13) It’s to be expected then, that what it actually took for the country to take Harth and other women’s stories of sexual assault seriously was not their own complaints, or a female reporter airing them: it was Trump himself bragging about sexual assault on video.
(14) But the curtain raiser to the games retained the bragging rights in terms of peak audience – the most people tuned in at any one time – with a five-minute high of 26.9 million against the closing event's 26.3 million at 9.35pm.
(15) To satisfy the competitive spirit, there will be a chance for them to enter an arena-style activity that lets them spar against one another for honour and bragging rights..." On that subject, Destiny players will, of course, get access to Bungie.net, the studio's community website.
(16) The son of longtime Rhode Island Republican senator John Chafee, the presidential candidate’s biography brags that he “attended Montana State University horse shoeing school in Bozeman and worked as a farrier at harness racing tracks for seven years”.
(17) We identified five cistrons corresponding to these bra genes by complementation analysis with various derivatives of pKTH24, confirming that the braD, braE, braF, and braG genes are required for the LIV-I transport system.
(18) Pride and bragging rights are at stake in tonight's match between these fierce South American rivals, with both sides deadlocked on 33 wins apiece in 89 encounters.
(19) Starting in early 2011 and using the alias Sabu, Monsegur led an Anonymous splinter group called Lulz Security, or LulzSec , which hacked computer systems of Fox television, Nintendo, PayPal and other businesses, stole private information and then bragged about it online.
(20) Having dropped out of medical school to focus on real estate, this is his way of establishing bragging rights.
Stuffy
Definition:
(a.) Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
(a.) Angry and obstinate; sulky.
(a.) Ill-ventilated; close.
Example Sentences:
(1) 8 complained of mild and transient nasal stuffiness and only 1 child had a rise in temperature (37.8 degrees C).
(2) In a double-blind study, diphenylpyraline (Lergobine) was given to 63 patients whose main symptoms were stuffiness of the nose, increased secretion of mucus, snuffling, sneezing and redness of the eyes.
(3) The symptoms evaluated included nasal stuffiness, dry mouth, nausea, fatigue, headache, and feelings of disorientation or depression.
(4) "I can't be doing with this stuffiness about only reading classics," she said in her acceptance speech, recalling how one of her teachers had called comics "rubbish".
(5) When Nicolas Sarkozy held his first comeback rally, he sweated profusely on a small stage in a stuffy and spartan gymnasium in the south of France.
(6) The sight of stuffy, bespectacled greying men berating films aimed primarily at teenage girls is as farcical as it is depressing.
(7) Symptom scores for sneezing, stuffy nose, and nasal secretion all decreased dramatically from baseline when budesonide treatment was started.
(8) He added: "The cry has gone up 'bring back the Dimblebys' – but imagine if it had, and the cries of 'stuffy coverage'.
(9) Revolving chairs, stuffy offices, dry as dust reports, blueprints one day and the next – with the help of a broken-down motor car and a few gallons of petrol – marching men with sweat-stained faces and shining eyes, horses straining and plunging at the guns, little clay-pits opening beneath each step, and piles of bloody clothes and leggings outside the canvas door of a field hospital.
(10) Three patients felt infraclavicular pressure; 1 had a brief sensation of breathlessness; 3 had nasal stuffiness from Horner's syndrome associated with the block; none developed headache, back pain, or paresthesias; and 3 had postoperative nausea.
(11) They’re betting that it’s a new country now, one ready to embrace a man who won’t play by all the stuffy old rules, who won’t do up his top button or bend the knee.
(12) Patients in the BDA group had significantly less (P less than 0.05) sneezing, rhinorrhea and nasal stuffiness at 36 days, cough at 10 days and antihistamine consumption at 17 days.
(13) Untoward effects experienced in volunteers receiving BW 942C included heaviness in the limbs, nasal stuffiness, mouth dryness, facial flushing, skin rash, and prickling sensations.
(14) Meanwhile Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves which has proved a hit with our booksellers and customers, will no doubt be hailed as a breath of fresh air – a highly readable answer to any accusations of stuffiness or impenetrability which are so often levelled against literary prizes."
(15) A stuffy and running nose are two of the most expressed symptoms of acute rhinosinusitis and have made the use of decongestants very common.
(16) Prevalences of "phlegm in winter," "nasal stuffiness or discharge in winter," and "irritation of eye and throat mucous membranes" were significantly higher in the PF workers.
(17) We report on a rhinomanometric assessment of eleven patients undergoing antroconchopexy for relief of a "stuffy" nose.
(18) The flunisolide group showed statistically greater improvement than the placebo group in such symptoms as the duration of sneezing, stuffy nose, runny nose and nose blowing.
(19) The elderly have a generalized decrease in body water content of 7%, and with the degeneration of mucus-secreting cells, the effectiveness of the mucociliary system is reduced with frequent symptoms of nasal stuffiness.
(20) Nasal provocation was assessed by clinical score, graded 0-12, to include rhinomanometry, secretions (mL), sneezes, and stuffy nose.