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Princeton's WordNet

  1. brag, bragging, crow, crowing, vaporing, line-shooting, gasconadeadjective

    an instance of boastful talk

    "his brag is worse than his fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade"

  2. boastful, braggart(a), bragging(a), braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandisingadjective

    exhibiting self-importance

    "big talk"

Wikipedia

  1. bragging

    Boasting or bragging is speaking with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities. Boasting occurs when someone feels a sense of satisfaction or when someone feels that whatever occurred proves their superiority and is recounting accomplishments so that others will feel admiration or envy.Individuals construct an image of themselves, a personal identity, and present themselves in a manner that is consistent with that image. Theodore Millon theorized that in self-presentation, individuals seek to balance boasting against discrediting themselves with excessive self-promotion or being caught blatantly misrepresenting themselves. Studies show that people often have a limited ability to perceive how their efforts at self-presentation are actually impacting their acceptance and likeability by others.

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  1. bragging

    Bragging is the act of expressing excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities, often in a manner that may appear boastful or conceited to others.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Bragging

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bragging in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bragging in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of bragging in a Sentence

  1. Matthew Perry:

    I think he was the only kid in school that we could beat up, you know, I'm not bragging about this. This is terrible. I was a stupid kid, I didn't want to beat him up.

  2. John Chang:

    They're passionate, but they're not out there bragging.

  3. Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

    Russia is deliberately bragging they can destroy with nuclear weapons, not only a certain country but the entire planet, we have to ensure this sacred month of Ramadan is not overshadowed by the misery of people in Ukraine.

  4. Stephen Farnsworth:

    Both parties want the bragging rights of a winner in Virginia. And if McAuliffe loses, that's going to scare some Democrats on the fence on the Biden agenda.

  5. Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi:

    Instead of hypocritical displays of compassion and repulsive bragging, you should end your economic and medical terrorism so that medicine and medical supplies can reach medical staff and the Iranian people, we do not need American doctors.

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