boasters

• “Applied to boasters, meaning sarcastically that in their own peculiar faculty they are unequalled.”

  The Proverbs of Scotland

• “Paul wrote of those days: “For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents …” (2 Timothy 3: 2).”

  Think Progress » ACLU will sue high school that canceled prom to stop lesbians from attending.

• “Having worked on these cases before, remember that abductors and people of that mindset are often boasters.”

  CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2009

• “Never was I one of these idle boasters such as other men are — not even aforetime, when I dwelt in my own country.”

  The Argonautica

• “Jon Stewart is allergic to liars, spinners and boasters, even pint-size ones from Ohio.”

  Newsweek: Red, White & Funny

• “No so, and constant US rubbing our noses in "we saved Australia in WW2" just annoys people as no-one likes big headed boasters.”

  "US Developing Separate JSF for Foreign Partners"

• “All types of all characters march through all fables: tremblers and boasters; victims and bullies; dupes and knaves; long-eared Neddies, giving themselves leonine airs;”

  The Newcomes

• “He hates idlers, pretenders, boasters, and punishes these fellows as best he may.”

  George Cruikshank

• “Yet how do these poor boasters value themselves upon the advantages their education gives them!”

  Clarissa Harlowe

• “This is the time when you separate the boasters from the bawlers.”

  Archive 2006-05-01

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