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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...
- 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...
- 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...
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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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righteous and
loyal warrior. Guan Yu is one of the most
altered and
aggrandised characters in the novel,[citation needed]
which accounts for his po****r...
- for
telling "his
story with
emotional intelligence. He is
never self-
aggrandising, yet part of his
appeal is his
naked ambition; in a
recent interview...
- retrograde, saltigrade,
tardigrade grandis •
grandior •
grandissimus grand-
aggrandise, aggrandi****t, grandee, grandeur, grandific, grandiloquent, grandiose...
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budget deficit had
already reached heady heights on the eve of the war,
aggrandised by
hidden Mefo and
Oeffa bill financing. In turn,
saving banks and credit...
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under bond in
London is not extraditable".
Tumblety published a self-
aggrandising pamphlet titled Dr.
Francis Tumblety –
Sketch of the Life of the Gifted...
- 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...