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• n  a very boastful and talkative person
• s  exhibiting self-importance

• The answer was half right because Pistol is a cowardly braggart.
• But the post-colonial moment ultimately demanded an individual touch--whether of warrior, statesman, braggart or showman.
• He was a bully, a braggart and a rebel with a big chip on his shoulder.

• bragger
• boaster
• blowhard
• line-shooter
• vaunter
• boastful
• bragging
• braggy
• big
• cock-a-hoop
• crowing
• self-aggrandizing
• self-aggrandising

News & Articles

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• If You Must Cheat, Cheat Quietly
  Late last week, a Pennsylvania woman made the national news after the Facebook post in which she outed a cheating braggart and/or liar went viral. "If this is your husband, I have endured a 2 hour train ride from Philadelphia listening to this loser and his friends brag about their multiple ... More »
  June 10, 2013 - New York Magazine

Quotes

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• Daniel Sullivan in 680 News
  Sam is by no means a sainted figure in this play,Sullivan, the director, said in an e-mail to the AP. "He's a braggart, who, like his brother Max, has a bloated sense of his own self worth; he's in complete denial of how others treat him...
• Ismail Haniyeh in Ha'aretz
  Speaking to thousands of students at the University of Tehran on Friday, Haniyeh said: "The braggart of the world [the United States] and the Zionists ...... want us to accept the theft of Palestinian lands, stop the jihad and the resistance and...
• Neil Gaiman in Sun-Sentinel.com
  The joy of Beowulf, for me, is that it's about this monstrous self-absorbed braggart hero who really is a hero - but he's everything else as well,Gaiman says. "For me, the engine that drives the film is when we revisit him 40 years later...