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Significados de braggy em inglês

Exhibiting self-importance.

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      Examples for "big"
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      We still have big water issues following the Havelock North water crisis.
      Radio NZ
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      No idea what half those big words mean but, yes, good point.
      The Guardian
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      The paper sheds new light on a big issue for technology companies.
      Wired
      4
      The big question now is: Can Quora really hope to answer everything?
      Wired
      5
      New firms offering 'big data' solutions to bond traders continue to emerge.
      Reuters
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      He'd been bragging all week about how great his sonar gizmo was.
      Anvil Gate
      2
      I am not bragging of it; I am only stating a fact.
      Our Friend John Burroughs
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      She's been bragging to my other cousins all week that you're coming.
      Rakes and radishes
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      But it is an opportunity for the supporters to get bragging rights.
      The Guardian
      5
      If I were in your place I'd go around bragging about it.
      We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
      1
      And, at one level at least, their crowing was easy to understand.
      The Irish Times
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      He laughed; a high, chuckling, crowing laugh; the laugh of triumphant optimism.
      In the Year of Jubilee
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      It was morning now; the cock was still crowing down at Sirilund.
      Pan
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      From somewhere outside, she heard a crowing sound and looked up expectantly.
      Hook
      5
      The animals were in the southeast corner, mooing and crowing and baying.
      The Maze Runner
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      Jason Barnett and Michele Austin are equally good as the boastful neighbours.
      The Guardian
      2
      How many times in your life have you heard this boastful remark:
      The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories
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      I grow boastful; I am an old man and should know better.
      The Lure of the Mask
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      She was surprised to hear something almost boastful in her own tone.
      The Happiest Time of Their Lives
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      And while he was there he heard the Giant speak boastful words.
      The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths
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      Women such as I am are not won in this braggart fashion.
      The Grey Cloak
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      He'd been such a shameless braggart that the crowd couldn't help cheering.
      Library of Souls
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      That man may have been a convict; but he is no braggart.
      A Mating in the Wilds
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      Something in his pose, half rustic, half braggart, seemed familiar to Gaspard.
      The Path of the King
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      He tried hard to despise the braggart, but ended with envying him.
      Tales from Two Hemispheres
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      To read their press, Conservatives should be cock-a-hoop at Labour's policy splurge.
      The Guardian
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      Australia, newly-crowned Tri-Nations champions are cock-a-hoop after their bonus point win over Italy.
      The Irish Times
      3
      UK property website Zoopla, which is also contemplating a float, must be cock-a-hoop.
      Reuters
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      This week, they arrive buoyant and cock-a-hoop, ready to take on the world.
      The Irish Times
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      Naturally, the artist was cock-a-hoop about the outcome and who can blame her?
      The Irish Times
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      He was not interested in self-aggrandizing or having his name in lights.
      Reuters
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      Is there some basic right which self-aggrandizing politicians seek to destroy first?
      The 5000 year leap: a miracle that changed the world
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      Typical self-aggrandizing hyperbole, but acknowledged to be a reasonable comparison nonetheless.
      The Naked God
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      Many physicists loathe the term, fretting that it makes their discipline seem self-aggrandizing.
      Reuters
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      Harris was affable, charming and simultaneously self-deprecating and comically self-aggrandizing.
      Reuters
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      She's eager to avoid the cliches of sweaty torsos and self-aggrandising story-lines.
      The Irish Times
      2
      I'm all for a healthy dose of scepticism where self-aggrandising mercy missions are concerned.
      The Guardian
      3
      Rock biographies are often worthy and self-aggrandising but this is brilliantly funny and self-deprecating.
      The Guardian
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      How self-aggrandising is that? If he had a whip to hand, he'd be lashing himself.
      The Guardian
      5
      There's nothing so unreliable as a criminal's self-aggrandising memoirs.
      The Guardian
      Uso de braggy em inglês
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      He was a biggity acting and braggy talking old man.
      Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
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      My heart began to pound, beating against my chest, pummeling my ribs and getting all braggy about its muscle strength.
      Nightlight
      3
      One day, will our children turn to us and ask, "Mommy and Daddy, why was all of your hip-hop performed by braggy robots?"
      Twitter wit: brilliance in 140 characters or less
      4
      The second day out he was feelin' pretty braggy and uppish for a stowed-away conspirator that owed his existence to a mule and stolen bananas.
      Cabbages and Kings
      5
      Granger was at Braggy's late headquarters in bed.
      Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ...
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      'That was only getting the pumpkin ready,' says Bassett, braggy and cheerful.
      The Gentle Grafter
      Braggy ao longo do tempo