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as in rhetoric
boastful speech or writing
his braggadocio hid the fact that he felt personally inadequate
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as in braggart
someone who boasts
the swaggering braggadocio is a stock figure of American folklore, with Davy Crockett and Mike Fink being prime examples
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Recent Examples of braggadocio
In point of fact, the modern American military is a much weaker and more debilitated force than Trump’s braggadocio, and the Defense Department’s gargantuan spending habits, might suggest.
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Seth Harp, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
This display exposes the campaign’s braggadocio.
—Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2025
Gulf Coast braggadocio, coupled with an incredibly effective government relations team, makes Bollinger an exciting-sounding partner.
—Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
However much that may be true, there can’t be many other actors that could play such a lovable loser with so much braggadocio and pathos.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for braggadocio
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That kind of rhetoric is escalatory.—
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Regardless, the Islamic Republic’s response has been to frame criticism as betrayal, suggesting that those who question support for Gaza or Lebanon are complicit with imperialism – a narrative enforced through a mix of rhetoric and coercion.—
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Of the many incarnations of the narcissist, there is the braggart, and there is also the neurotic.—
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Still, Kimmel never came off as a braggart.—
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Important to remember Epstein was known brag about his associations with wealthy and powerful people.—
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The entertainment industry is no stranger to individuals who espouse contested stories about screen hits, but the producers of Legacy of Lies have grown tired of his brags.—
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The story is told from Dah’s perspective, as Jocelyn—who displays a quasi-mystical rapport with fighting cocks—suffers an emotional breakdown, putting their business and their lives in danger.—
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The former became fighting cocks and the latter became sows.—
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Returning composer Johannes Ringen’s big orchestral score provides the kind of bombast that might as easily suit any multiplex-ready popcorn epic.—
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The resulting game evokes the bombast of Japanese kaiju movies, the wonder of prestige nature documentaries, and sometimes even the brutality of factory farming, all while remaining its own undeniably majestic beast.—
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Much of that singularity was centered in McCarthy’s prose, which ricocheted—sometimes gracefully, sometimes jarringly—between gruff matter-of-factness and soaring, biblical grandiloquence.—
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Several of them can fly, and all have at least a touch of grandiloquence to them.—
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Famed for launching Downton Abbey, the network has been courting sale interest for well over a year, but for all the industry chatter and press speculation, ITV’s silence has been stony.—
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In the case of Copeland, has noted that his name has not even been brought up within WWE, even with the online chatter.—
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Not all Jewish conservatives agree with Fine’s bluster.—
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Khamenei must know that threats, bluster, and repression cannot stop the uprising.—
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“Braggadocio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/braggadocio. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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