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101cock-a-hoop — a. Boasting, boastful, bragging, vaunting, vaporing, blustering, exulting, triumphant, vain glorious …
102ostentation — n. 1. Display, show, parade, pomp, flourish, dash, pomposity, pompousness, pageantry, high pretension, vaunting. 2. Semblance, appearance, show …
103vain-glorious — a. 1. Conceited, vain, proud beyond desert. 2. Boastful, vaunting, braggart, pretentious …
104bullying — I. a. Blustering, swaggering, vaporing, vaunting, hectoring, bluff, gruff, bearish. II. n. Bluster, swagger, fanfaronade, gasconade, vaporing, hectoring, fire eating, mock heroics, browbeating, domineering …
105afflict — afflict, try, torment, torture, rack mean to inflict upon a person something which he finds hard to bear. Something or someone that causes pain, disability, suffering, acute annoyance, irritation, or embarrassment may be said to afflict a person… …
106boast — vb Boast, brag, vaunt, crow, gasconade mean to give vent in speech to one s pride in oneself or something (as family, connections, race, or accomplishments) intimately connected with oneself. Boast and vaunt are often used transitively as well as …
107egotism — egoism, *conceit, self love, amour propre, self esteem Analogous words: vanity, vainglory, *pride: boasting or boastfulness, vaunting or vauntfulness, gasconading (see corresponding verbs at BOAST): pluming, piquing, priding, preening (see PRIDE… …
108rodomontade — *bombast, rhapsody, rant, fustian Analogous words: boasting, bragging, vaunting (see BOAST vb): vainglory, vanity, *pride: magniloquence, grandiloquence (see corresponding adjectives at RHETORICAL) …
109vainglorious — proud, vain (see under PRIDE n) Analogous words: arrogant, haughty, supercilious, disdainful, insolent, *proud: boasting or boastful, bragging, vaunting, gas conading (see corresponding verbs at BOAST) …
110boastful — adj bragging, braggart, crowing, vaunting, blustering, vaporing, blowing, fanfaronading; proud, overproud, vain, vainglorious, egotistical, conceited, swell headed, swollen, inflated, puffed up; cocky, overbearing, overweening, Scot. vaunty;… …
