(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.
Bragger
Definition:
(n.) One who brags; a boaster.
Example Sentences:
(1) He writes: "The work of yakkers and tweeters and braggers, and of people with the money to pay somebody to churn out hundreds of five-star reviews for them, will flourish in that world.
(2) 1.00pm BST Marine Academy Plymouth - A-Level Results 2013 These two happy students have done well at Marine Academy Plymouth - Lloyd Moody is going off to do a foundation degree in Art at PCAD and Ashton Bragger is going to study a degree in music at Plymouth University Sent via Guardian Witness By sparxy 15 August 2013, 12:23 Share your images and videos of the day via Guardian Witness .
(3) The acclaimed US novelist Jonathan Franzen has likened Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos, to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse and claimed that the online retailer-publisher is decimating literary culture in favour of the "yakkers and tweeters and braggers".