How To Use Braggart In A Sentence
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Odysseus was a braggart and a poor winner who couldn't keep his big mouth shut and got punished by the gods for it.
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Speaking by videophone in the Pima County Adult Detention Center, the woman prosecutors dubbed a braggart and a killer-who reportedly boasted she would "kick down doors and change America" with her border vigilante activities-maintained her innocence.
Crooks and Liars
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The Cherokee legend, commonly known as "The Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting, " is about a rabbit who is a braggart and a trickster able to persuade other animals that he can back up his boasts.
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There is also a ridiculous braggart warrior, and two maidens of different aspect and character, one fair and ill-natured, the other ugly and compassionate, who both visit a magic well in search of a husband.
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The play starred Mark Rylance as Johnny "Rooster" Byron, a beer-gurgling, barnstorming braggart who lives in a caravan deep in the Wiltshire woods, harried on one side by council officials desperate to evict him, on the other by teenagers wanting drugs.
Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
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One of these boys who use the local train for their nefarious activities become the victim of a braggart.
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Why people would want to read the raving, uninformed postings of anonymous blowhards and braggarts for voyeuristic sport is beyond me.
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Why people would want to read the raving, uninformed postings of anonymous blowhards and braggarts for voyeuristic sport is beyond me.
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I'm a braggart, which is a surprise, as I thought for sure I'd get the hippie.....
Some nice reviews
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He, who's a braggart and a drunk and a rat and a scoundrel, at his death bed, says, I find Christ.
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-- the veteran collector grows young again in thinking upon the valour he then exhibited; and the juvenile collector talks "braggartly" of other times -- which he calls the golden days of the bibliomania -- when he reflects upon his lusty efforts in securing an _Exemplar
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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He is a braggart with an ego so inflated that he often speaks of himself in the third person.
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No, because if Todd is anything, he is a braggart.
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o 'faddling fictions as -- gestes of jongleurs, tales told by tramping troubadours, ballades of babbling braggarts, romances of roysterous rhymers, she (good gossip!) as I say, having hearkened to and perused the works of such-like pelting, paltry prosers and poets wherein sweep of sword and lunge o' lance is accompted of worthier repute than the penning of dainty distich and pretty poesies pleasingly passionate.
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
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To be challenged in such a manner is an irresistible red flag to men like this, and certainly no less of one because the challenger was a rude, loud, irreverent braggart who had never been victorious in actual air-to-air combat.
"Forty Second" Boyd and the Big Picture « Isegoria
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Daniel stood by, with arms akimbo, his booted legs braggartly straddled and his freckled face primed with an intolerant grin at our recent efforts.
Desert Dust
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Washington told Colonel John Stanwix, his military superior, that the captured ensign declared that the garrison at Fort Duquesne counted 600 French and 200 Indians; “I believe he is a Gasconian,” a braggart, Washington said.
George Washington’s First War
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Walpole from then on ridiculed GW, calling him a fanfaron braggart, and saying that he soon “learned to blush for his rodomontade.”
George Washington’s First War
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To paraphrase Hemingway on "Huckleberry Finn," all baseball literature comes from one book by Ring Lardner, "You Know Me Al" 1916, the first-person account of the trials and tribulations of a shallow young bush-league braggart.
Taking Fiction Out to the Ballgame
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Overnight Riley Hanson had become a cautious braggart.
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Ronnie was a bully and a braggart, and the fact he was bright and entertaining did not mitigate the fact he was a murderer.
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Ferrari seemed still somewhat disturbed in his mind -- but even his uneasiness dissipated itself by degrees, and heated by the quantity of wine he had taken, he began to talk with boastful braggartism of his many successful gallantries, and related his most questionable anecdotes in such a manner as to cause some haughty astonishment in the mind of the Duke di Marina, who eyed him from time to time with ill-disguised impatience that bordered on contempt.
Vendetta: a story of one forgotten
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With the braggart dash and swagger of the soldiers of fortune amongst whom Deutsch had served, the headsman presents the Baptist's head with exaggerated courtliness to Salome.
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We are accustomed to laugh at the French for their braggadocio propensities, and intolerable vanity about La France, la gloire, l’Empereur, and the like; and yet I think in my heart that the British Snob, for conceit and self-sufficiency and braggartism in his way, is without a parallel.
The Book of Snobs
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V. i.45 (123,6) A beggarly account of empty boxes] Dr. Warburton would read, a _braggartly_ account; but _beggarly_ is probably right: if the
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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Such was his regard for his patron's memory, that when Sallust described him as having a brazen face, and a shameless mind, he lashed the historian in a most bitter satire [882], as "a bull's-pizzle, a gormandizer, a braggart, and a tippler, a man whose life and writings were equally monstrous;" besides charging him with being "a most unskilful plagiarist, who borrowed the language of Cato and other old writers.
De vita Caesarum
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But she finds refuge with another man, ironically a local braggart photographer who is not so much successful as handy.
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A quiet lad he was and not a boaster and braggart like lots o 'people seem to think.
Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon
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Since Monday the 8th was a holiday, golfers from the Three Sisters gathered at Siam on Tuesday the 9th to see who would be the braggart for the week.
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The synonyms were spot-on: big mouth, blusterer, boaster, braggart, line-shooter, loudmouth, and — my personal favorite — vaunter.
2010 August « Motivated Grammar
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Stephen was also Scottish, thirty-three, a university-trained medical doctor, veteran of the Royal Navy, somewhat of a braggart, who made important friends when he set up practice in Virginia.
George Washington’s First War
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But she finds refuge with another man, ironically a local braggart photographer who is not so much successful as handy.
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This braggart weaves astonishing tales of cunning and will while stalking game, and even more preposterous stories of superhuman feats of boozing.
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Successful entrepreneurs are not just braggarts.
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At the risk (or guarantee) of sounding like a braggart, I pretty much knew these cookies would be a total hit.
Clinging Onto My Youth
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On his big military map of that region (it is on the western edge of the Argonne) Foch would show his students how the Prussians, Hessians and some Austrian troops; under the Duke of Brunswick, crossed the French frontier on August 19 and came swaggering toward Paris, braggartly announcing their intentions of “celebrating” in Paris in September.
Foch the Man
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In 1513 Conrad Mudt (Mutianus Rufus, supporter of Reuchlin and friend of Melanchthon) saw and heard Georg Faust at Erfurt; he wrote to a fellow humanist that this “immoderate and Foolish braggart,” calling himself the “demigod from Heidelberg,” before astonished listeners “talked nonsense at the inn.”
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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In 1974, Jimmy Connors, a strutting young braggart who used his racket like a cudgel, bludgeoned his way to the final of Wimbledon.
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Doris also ventures back into the troubled waters of romance, whether she's being fixed up by her sons with an egotistical lawman or giving a braggart his comeuppance.
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In addition, he showed how to decode body language: crossing one's legs when sitting was a sign of uneasiness, while standing with one's legs wide apart was the hallmark of a braggart.
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But, if you speak too loudly, you may be perceived as overbearing, bossy aa braggart.
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The braggart Anecdotes that bolster self-image reveal a great deal to you about the speaker.
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While you might view your BF's silence as a negative because it appears he's less-than-proud to be dating, it beats a kiss-and-tell braggart.
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The braggart turns every question into an answer that makes himself or herself look incredibly good.
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He is a charming braggart who through accessorizing makes his three uniform wardrobe look like twelve.
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Most of the soldiers were a dull lot, either sullen and silent, not wishing to be where they were, or braggarts, constantly telling all who would listen of their strength and bravery.
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In addition, he showed how to decode body language: crossing one's legs when sitting was a sign of uneasiness, while standing with one's legs wide apart was the hallmark of a braggart.
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I loathe the idea of braggart look-at-how-we-give-to-the-poor stuff, but the object is to get Christmas gifts in some sort of perspective....would value other suggestions from blog readers onm how to do something to counter gross Christmas greed/consumerism without looking Cromwellian or smug.
Auntie joanna writes
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Falstaff, the archetypal braggart, poltroon, toper and talker, wit and source of wit in others, is usually a figure larger than life.
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Bells you gave me, bells of victory, bells of merriment, yellow and green; cloches clashing, swaggering braggarts, helmets agleam coppery red.
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Are all fans from Philadelphia loud-mouthed braggarts?
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For an unassuming pair of country-folk dreamers, their debut resonates with a wild collection of weirdos: county-fair folk-fest burn-outs, cowboy junkers, and record store braggarts.
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Why is it that Father would rather have a commander who is an arrogant braggart ---a fool who just appears to be leading his army?
THE FAMILY
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In 1974, Jimmy Connors, a strutting young braggart who used his racket like a cudgel, bludgeoned his way to the final of Wimbledon.
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He was a braggart and a poseur, who frequently tripped himself up by telling inconsistent versions of the same story.
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But she finds refuge with another man, ironically a local braggart photographer who is not so much successful as handy.
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There be some pot-valiant braggarts that defy the law.
Lords of the North
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The synonyms were spot-on: big mouth, blusterer, boaster, braggart, line-shooter, loudmouth, and — my personal favorite — vaunter.
Review: Wordnik’s Thesaurus « Motivated Grammar
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He, who's a braggart and a drunk and a rat and a scoundrel, at his death bed, says, I find Christ.
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They are the biggest braggarts in the bar, with the least to brag about.
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For example, if you know an arrogant person, don't just write him off as a swaggering braggart.
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V. i.45 (123,6) A beggarly account of empty boxes] Dr. Warburton would read, a _braggartly_ account; but _beggarly_ is probably right: if the
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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Snob, for conceit and self-sufficiency and braggartism in his way, is without a parallel.
The Book of Snobs
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Walpole from then on ridiculed GW, calling him a fanfaron braggart, and saying that he soon “learned to blush for his rodomontade.”
George Washington’s First War
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His males are braggarts whose emotions stay on the surface: if they have interior lives, Walsh isn't interested in them.
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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
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Walpole from then on ridiculed GW, calling him a fanfaron braggart, and saying that he soon “learned to blush for his rodomontade.”
George Washington’s First War
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He was a braggart and a poseur, who frequently tripped himself up by telling inconsistent versions of the same story.
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He sat rebuked in this man's presence -- this man whom, within the hour, he had called boaster and braggart, liar and coward.
Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not
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I suppose not, although quite frankly I never liked the braggart.
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Immanuel's braggartism as to his many love affairs is only another aspect of the Renaissance habit, which is exemplified so completely in the similar boasts of Benvenuto Cellini.
The Book of Delight and Other Papers
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And a good deal of his braggartly extrovertism was a cover for this.
Times, Sunday Times