braggart

• He boldly threw off the mask that had hitherto concealed its uglier features, and commenced a systematic course of pillage and petty plundering--backed by a series of curiously bombastic and windy orders Calmly to read these wonderful effusions--dated from "Headquarters in the saddle"--by the light of his real deeds, one could only conceive that General Pope coveted that niche in history filled by Thackeray's O'Grady Gahagan_; and that much of his reading had been confined to the pleasant rambles of Gulliver and the doughty deeds of Trenck and Munchausen To sober second thought, the sole reason for his advancement might seem his wonderful power as a braggart. —  Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
• If you refuse to wrestle, I will brand you as a blower and a braggart--a fellow not fit to be accepted in the society of gentlemen. —  Frank Merriwell's Races
• Though he was an unconscionable braggart, and though he had no scruples about falsifying facts, yet, as the first person to publish an account of the Falls of Niagara, and as the discoverer and namer of the Falls of St. Anthony, he is fairly entitled to a place in a collection like this He was born in Belgium, about 1640, and in due time joined the Franciscan monks. —  French Pathfinders in North America
• Thus with allusion to the great struggle in which Christian Spain was engaged for so many centuries, a vaunting braggart is a ‘matamoros’, a ‘slaymoor’; he is a ‘matasiete’, a slayseven’; a ‘perdonavidas’, a ‘sparelives’. —  English Past and Present
• He is a great braggart, and especially fond of boasting of the mad pranks of his younger days. —  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3

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