braggart

In some senses, You is what you might get if Curb Your Enthusiasm’s “social assassin” Larry David were a literal assassin, violently vanquishing braggarts and navel gazers and empty-headed trend chasers of every variety.
You Season 3 Is the Best Installment Yet—and a Brilliant Send-Up of Suburbia|Judy Berman|October 17, 2021|Time
Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, who probably is the smartest person on her block, has fun in her latest video skewering the scientific braggart.
How to Talk Like a Physicist - Facts So Romantic|Brian Gallagher|January 1, 2021|Nautilus
Sometimes being a great braggart isn’t about how much money you got.
Busta Rhymes’ Teaches the Art of Bragging in This Week’s The Playlist|cmurray|December 4, 2020|Essence.com
It seems the braggart was unaware of the changes in the law.
The Case of the Yakking Yakuza|Jake Adelstein|September 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST

One of us had even claimed to be present at Castra Regina, although we mainly considered him a braggart.
The Extinction Parade: An Original Zombie Story by Max Brooks|Max Brooks|January 14, 2011|DAILY BEAST
In the book, Alice is a smug, Victorian braggart who loves nothing more than showing off her knowledge.
Alice, Bratty in Wonderland|Nicole LaPorte|February 28, 2010|DAILY BEAST
He had never been a braggart; his hostility had always been lazy and cynical.
The Three Partners|Bret Harte
Richard sent a shaft through the very heart of this braggart Turk.
With Spurs of Gold|Frances Nimmo Greene
But the Huguenot generals evidently imagined that there was nothing in the speech beyond the prating of a silly braggart.
History of the Rise of the Huguenots|Henry Baird
She would not marry a coward or a braggart, even if he were the owner of ten thousand acres.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume V|John Lord
Perhaps it was for the cowardice he had displayed in action, for he was an arrant coward and braggart.
Court Beauties of Old Whitehall|W. R. H. Trowbridge

British Dictionary definitions for braggart

braggart

/ (ˈbræɡət) /

noun

a person who boasts loudly or exaggeratedly; bragger

adjective

boastful

Word Origin for braggart

C16: see brag

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