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  • Personally, I would suggest that the guys posting photos with claims of sexual adventure are stuck on selling an idea of themselves a la sophomoric head games and braggery than any actual skills for meeting and interacting with women in a real and healthy manner.

    Life of Brian: 2005

  • He was still the pot-bellied, dark-chinned smooth operator, full of bluff and braggery.

    See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

  • Personally, I would suggest that the guys posting photos with claims of sexual adventure are stuck on selling an idea of themselves a la sophomoric head games and braggery than any actual skills for meeting and interacting with women in a real and healthy manner.

    Hot Babes I Have Slept With . . . . . . Proof in the Pudding . . .. . . photographic "evidence" of what? 2005

  • _Pindars_ string which was neuerthelesse word by word as _Rounsard_ had said before by like braggery.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • And in the end (which is worst of all) makes his vaunt that neuer English finger but his hath toucht Pindars string which was neuerthelesse word by word as Rounsardhad said before by like braggery.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

  • Tenaciously, Murashkina engulfs him in a rampant display of braggery and chaos, reciting her long and boring show in a desperate bid to win his attention and praise.

    Queen's Journal: Latest stories 2009

  • PS: Additionally, it is important to me that my loved ones are provided with an opportunity to reflect upon my penchant for car braggery.

    NOGOODFORME.COM 2009

  • Still, it seems like Mozilla's claims aren't just inside-ball developer braggery-this monkey is a swift one.

    unknown title 2008

  • I do object to their braggery, but that doesn’t make as big an impression as their braggery does, which was what I was trying to say.

    On victim-blaming and control 2005

  • That they feel comfortable bragging about it, and that you don’t feel comfortable about objecting to their braggery does.

    On victim-blaming and control 2005

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