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Boasting or
bragging is
speaking with
excessive pride and self-satisfaction
about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities.
Boasting occurs when someone...
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buildings as townhouses,
following the
North American usage of the term, to
aggrandise modest dwellings and to
avoid the
negative connotation of
cheap terraced...
- kali
event held in the
Punnamada Lake near Alappuzha, Kerala, India. To
aggrandise [definition needed] this
sport and
showcase Kerala's
backwaters to the...
- that when at last in 1718 he succeeded, he made it his
prime object to
aggrandise himself and his
office at
their expense. It is
clear at
least that he...
- been
guilty of
painting the bull's-eye on his own
forehead (that self-
aggrandising Live Aid
Concorde business, the cringe-worthy
lyrics to 'Another Day...
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failed financially but
Grant was
generously praised. He pla**** his self-
aggrandising character, an
amalgam of
Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest, with smarmy...
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revelations it
contains are "mired in
several thousand words of self-
aggrandising,
poorly punctuated and
repetitive text." In May 2023,
Murray opened his...
- he is left to mull over her
rejection in a self-obsessional and self-
aggrandising manner over the
space of
several chapters. "How much, I see as I look...
- retrograde, saltigrade,
tardigrade grandis •
grandior •
grandissimus grand-
aggrandise, aggrandi****t, grandee, grandeur, grandific, grandiloquent, grandiose...
- "every
institution that has so far
attempted to use TV to po****rise or
aggrandise itself has been
trivialised by it". A
review in The
Times concluded that...
