What's the difference between braggadocio and braggart?

Braggadocio


Definition:

  • (n.) A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer.
  • (n.) Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With Huck Finn , he could recall life on America's great river as a permanent thing, a place of menacing sunsets, starlit nights and strange dawns, of the confessions of dying men, hints of buried treasure, murderous family feuds, overheard shoptalk, the crazy braggadocio of travelling showmen, the distant thunder of the civil war, and two American exiles, Huck the orphan and Jim the runaway slave, floating down the immensity of the great Mississippi.
  • (2) Sometimes men launch these attacks on each other, hack each other in displays of techie braggadocio, but it is essentially yet another unwanted cost of being female.
  • (3) And then she allowed his style and braggadocio to rattle her.
  • (4) But he continues to show that he is not being “handled”, and it’s likely he will go on with this bluster and braggadocio.
  • (5) Yes, there are still braggadocio lyrics and attitudes but I would say hip-hop has made great strides.
  • (6) Already, the Kentucky fighter's braggadocio ("I am the prettiest ...
  • (7) But again, Trump seems extreme compared to other candidates, as witnessed in his near-constant self-references, his over-the-top braggadocio and his desire to plaster his name on skyscrapers, casinos, a so-called “university” and steaks.
  • (8) Donald Trump drew oohs and aahs for all of his one-liners and braggadocio , while more centrist candidates like Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and John Kasich drew scepticism and a fair number of boos in the crowded hotel ballroom during Thursday night’s debate.
  • (9) Because people are saying ‘You know, Trump is right … Trump has a point’.” There is so much braggadocio involved in the Donald Trump Show that many people outside his political bubble have become accustomed to taking everything he says with a very large pinch of salt.
  • (10) Hurley's lyrics combine braggadocio and rebellious sloganeering with an underlying sense of bleak urban unease.
  • (11) If someone else was saying this you might take it as idle hip-hop braggadocio, but this is Rick Ross we're talking about.
  • (12) Isis is playing a game of braggadocio and provocation, dressing it up in the language of prisoner exchanges and execution, as though it really is the state it claims to be.
  • (13) Angst experienced after losing all of one's friends following a protracted bout of online braggadocio, often enhanced by the grim, slowly-dawning realisation that the maxim "you only live once" works equally well as a warning against such hubristic carelessness, so maybe you should've frigging well heeded it eh #yolo.
  • (14) Now, Ali – the Greatest, the inventor and ne plus ultra of boxing’s motor-mouth braggadocio – has fallen all but silent.
  • (15) Perhaps that is why I’m most proud of this achievement; the braggadocio is ever-present.

Braggart


Definition:

  • (v. i.) A boaster.
  • (a.) Boastful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He could take the most pitiful souls – his CV was populated almost exclusively by snivelling wretches, insufferable prigs, braggarts and outright bullies – and imbue each of them with a wrenching humanity.
  • (2) Would the more intellectual and refined Morrissey shrink from the braggart McCulloch, throwing down a flower as a challenge?
  • (3) It is a marker of masculine status, and discussed in terms of violent weaponry by braggart men and radical feminists alike.
  • (4) Then he says: "Forgive me, that sounds…" He couldn't be less of a braggart.
  • (5) We were certainly aware that businesses around us were struggling to keep going – I was very cautious about not being seen to be a braggart about how we were doing – but incredibly we were doing very well.” When their annus horribilis came last year, Cox says that more than 20 years of being a married couple living and working together served them well through incredibly tough times.
  • (6) Trump is a blindingly obvious braggart with the skills of someone playing the slot machines in Reno, varying between good fortune and loud noises.
  • (7) We had barely absorbed the bizarre tableau of Russian photographers ushered into the innermost sanctum of presidential power when comes word that the president had divulged sensitive intelligence to an adversary like a braggart showing off a shiny new Ferrari.

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