braggadocio

How To Use braggadocio In A Sentence

• His words were as profane as any gangsta rapper's, but he preferred self-mockery to the usual braggadocio.
• It commented: ‘It turns out that for all his braggadocio, Dr. Venter was right.’
• I'm no fan of Bill O'Reilly, whose arrogance and smugness appear to be genuine unlike Rush Limbaugh's braggadocio, which is just schtick. BatesLine: March 2005 Archives
• Fatboy, boss hogg, the drugster flip flopping like a beached whale after he realizes some may hold him to his braggadocio words. Think Progress » Limbaugh Now Says He Won’t Move To Costa Rica — Will Just Go There To Use Its Public Health System
• Unusually character-driven for a genre that typically deals in braggadocious montages of big barrel riding, this polished Australian production is buoyed along by the outsized personalities of a pair of pushing-50 best mates.
• Mark Fitzpatrick, chief proliferation analyst at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies, said the move was a show of Iranian "braggadocio" which made an attack on its nuclear sites more likely. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
• Lyrically it doesn't go beyond braggadocious bluster and more local-musician name-drops.
• Dostoevsky evinced the conviction of having been divinely commissioned in a manner that was diffident, almost shy, and utterly devoid of braggadocio.
• Hip hop is a kingdom built on braggadocio, with swagger and cocksureness as the foundations.
• Though here, too, there is the braggadocio of the blues persona, Cortez employs less antiphony in her own voice, using instead a softer, more sensual tone to simulate a jazz ballad.