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    Use "braggadocio" in a sentence

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    braggadocio


    1. “But not as many as you would have a right to expect from untested men!” he continued with an air of subdued braggadocio


    2. overcompensated for with his machismo braggadocio


    3. Moreover, there was in all these words of Thenardier, in his accent, in his gesture, in his glance which darted flames at every word, there was, in this explosion of an evil nature disclosing everything, in that mixture of braggadocio and abjectness, of pride and pettiness, of rage and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights of violence, in that shameless nudity of a repulsive soul, in that conflagration of all sufferings combined with all hatreds, something which was as hideous as evil, and as heart-rending as the truth


    4. Karyl had just secured his audience’s undivided attention in a way no bluster or braggadocio could have approached


    5. At these reunions I had to play the part of host—to meet and entertain fat mercantile parvenus who were impossible by reason of their rudeness and braggadocio, colonels of various kinds, hungry authors, and journalistic hacks—all of whom disported themselves in fashionable tailcoats and pale yellow gloves, and displayed such an aggregate of conceit and gasconade as would be unthinkable even in St


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    Synonyms for "braggadocio"

    bluster braggadocio rhodomontade rodomontade

    "braggadocio" definitions

    vain and empty boasting