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• s  exhibiting self-importance

• The mere plans for it have already made her proud again, and boastful.
• Framini, the stolid embodiment of the old Peronismo, is boastful, loudly emotional, disorganized; his course is "revolution" and an "open fight.
• Tokyo Joe built his investing reputation post by boastful post on the rough-and-tumble public discussions of the Silicon Investor (www.

• braggart
• bragging
• braggy
• big
• cock-a-hoop
• crowing
• self-aggrandizing
• self-aggrandising

News & Articles

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• 'Huge character win' for Blackhawks
  BOSTON - The Stanley Cup Finals were headed back to Chicago no matter how Game 4 turned out Wednesday night at TD Garden. But by virtue of their 6-5 overtime victory over the Bruins, the Blackhawks remained relevant in the Cup conversation while silencing a boatload of boastful Bostonians who had already begun mapping out a victory parade route.
  June 20, 2013 - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
• Not Just Kanye: 7 More Extreme Celebrity Profiles
  The rapper's recent profile was expectedly boastful and predictably fun reading -- and it joins these famous profiles in the hall of fame
  June 13, 2013 - Time Magazine

Quotes

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• Ahmed Rashid in International Herald Tribune
  He's a boastful character. I think after four years of silence, he'd probably like to be up there with the likes of bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri as a major figure and ideologue, and impress people with everything he's done,said Ahmed...
• Dale Earnhardt Jr in SportingNews.com
  I feel like we've got a shot, you know what I mean,Earnhardt said. "Nobody's boastful enough, I don't think, personality-wise to come in here and claim that (he should be considered the favorite). I wouldn't expect anybody to do that. But...
• Christopher Hitchens in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  Love her or hate her -- Christopher Hitchens calls her "a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus" -- in two short months, Sarah Palin has made it hard to imagine politics without her.