braggers
- plural of bragger.
Example Sentences
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AS A PARENT, I find the unspoken reason this topic elicits such passion is that the same feeling underlies both the braggers and the antibraggers: fear.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2013
But the prevalence of social media has given us many more canvases on which to paint our faux humility — making us, in turn, increasingly sophisticated braggers.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2012
Winning the braggers Cup heaps prestige upon the winners and shame amongst the losers.
From Time Magazine Archive
He also held worshipful feasts, and out-bragged the braggers, declaring that he would buy all the wares in Nóvgorod, or forfeit thirty thousand in money.
From A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
Dear children, though you're winners, Be modest all; For pride must fall, And braggers lose their dinners.'
From Miss Elliot's Girls Stories of Beasts, Birds, and Butterflies by Corning, Mary Spring
