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Meanings of bragging in English
Catalan
bravata Spanish
fanfarronería Exhibiting self-importance.
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Synonyms
Examples for "crow"
Examples for "crow"
1
She'll crow for days about the fact that I finally needed it.
2
Male and female house crow look alike, although males are slightly larger.
3
Fifteen miles as the crow flies is the usual limit of vision.
4
He had half the crow and hawk nests in the swamp located.
5
Off in the checkered shadows of the forest a crow cawed derisively.
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Other topics best avoided include boasting about the kids, politics and religion.
2
Young forward Jonathan Freeman kicked four, with the Lions boasting 11 goalkickers.
3
Then they spent the remainder of the year boasting of the achievement.
4
The creature was boasting, but Sharn-igon could believe the story easily enough.
5
Despite boasting one of the best scoring margins in the nation, No.
1
It brings a certain credibility, authority and a confident swagger to proceedings.
2
His manner was changed; there was something of a swagger in it.
3
Morrison, playing with an increasing swagger, soon took control of the match.
4
Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.
5
When the pair returned the deputy seemed to have lost his swagger.
1
Users, however, routinely brag they can use the system to drive hands-free.
2
Sorry to brag but our Christmas tree is absolutely gorgeous this year!
3
However, Bellarmine's vacant attempts to brag about his wealth fell incredibly short.
4
The more we paid for it the louder the owner would brag.
5
You didn't overstate the fact in your brag about the political graves.
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His bluster and gasconade desert him, and leave him in pitiful case.
2
That they were captured by the Indian seems too much of a gasconade.
3
This gasconade made the whole court laugh, even Catherine.
4
We hear of no gasconade on her part.
5
I love their jolly abandon of manner, their kindness and "honesty," and their gasconade.
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No doubt there was plentiful vaporing, and cases of backsliding might occur.
2
But these South Carolina economists are better at vaporing than at calculation.
3
Sir, there has been a good deal of vaporing on this subject.
4
In truth, mere vaporing hurt nobody, and caused no great alarm.
5
We call it by every name of fleeting, dreaming, vaporing imagery.
Usage of bragging in English
1
He'd been bragging all week about how great his sonar gizmo was.
2
I am not bragging of it; I am only stating a fact.
3
She's been bragging to my other cousins all week that you're coming.
4
But it is an opportunity for the supporters to get bragging rights.
5
If I were in your place I'd go around bragging about it.
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After bragging about Aus Post she hasn't shown up to Senate Estimates.
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But which students, alumni, and academics get to claim the bragging rights?
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Shortly after this the lad Hughie relieved the bragging, would-be bad man.
9
Even now, lost in the wild, Arden was bragging about her parents.
10
As long as she hit the ball, it resulted in shameless bragging.
11
They had told all their playmates and talked incessantly with childish bragging.
12
Writer wondered why they were bragging about raccoons instead of their children.
13
There was nothing but bragging among them, and therefore I went away.
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Ursula Burns, though, is handing bragging rights to billionaire investor Carl Icahn.
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He wasn't above bragging about his exploits to the other boys, either.
16
They'd think you were bragging or lying if you mentioned it, and-
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Translations for bragging
Bragging through the time
Bragging across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common