How to Use braggadocio in a Sentence

braggadocio

noun
  • Yet, some braggadocio was so off the mark as to risk ridicule.
    — Miriam Matthews, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Bloom’s boasts were the fact-lite braggadocio of a dive bar day drinker.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2022
  • There's a lot of boasting and braggadocio and very little in the way of provable facts.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 22 May 2018
  • Once in a while, Drake likes to get deep into his braggadocio pocket.
    — Bianca Gracie, Billboard, 11 Apr. 2018
  • At the same time, his braggadocio stirred an excitement that hadn’t been seen for any boxer in years.
    — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The text reads as braggadocio, the words of an artist dismissing a modern master as a bygone.
    — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
  • In hindsight, that moment of hubristic braggadocio may have provoked the wrath of the retail gods.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Now, instead of drum-heavy tunes of rhyming braggadocio, Lopez’s music is flavor and texture.
    — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2023
  • The first victim said that this guy, Cleotha Abston, was braggadocio behind bars.
    — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Still, those records carried a protective braggadocio that centered on who Syd was as a figure.
    — Vulture, 12 Apr. 2022
  • However much that may be true, there can’t be many other actors that could play such a lovable loser with so much braggadocio and pathos.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2025
  • That sense of braggadocio and one-upmanship pulses faintly through the film, but is weighed down by an odd need to seem serious, too.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
  • For each grand display of braggadocio, the silent picking of a lock to execute an early morning warrant.
    — Samuel W. Buell, Slate Magazine, 27 Sep. 2017
  • After treating the divas to a lovely performance on harp, the gofer can’t resist a bit of braggadocio.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Trump, with his gift of braggadocio, might declare a great accomplishment when nothing of substance had in fact been agreed upon.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, latimes.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Is the comment a bit of jealous braggadocio, or is Vic actually a cold-blooded killer?
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2022
  • There were no pretensions of showmanship, no displays of braggadocio — just the hollow ringing of palms on goatskin.
    — Taran Dugal, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2024
  • In person, Huang subdues his ironic braggadocio with polite eye contact and rolling belly laughs at his own jokes.
    — Mariella Rudi, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • In addition to the obvious braggadocio of the form, there is a sleight of hand involved in the composition.
    — Kriston Capps, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2019
  • The braggadocio that marked so much of the crypto world is fading as those easy-money policies have been reversed and the bull market in stocks has disappeared.
    — Corrie Driebusch, WSJ, 18 June 2022
  • Cardo’s woozy production aided Amine’s syrupy chorus and led to more braggadocios bars from the 30-year-old.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The first singles from Carey’s 16th album are dripping with braggadocio with her inimitable voice wafting like smoke.
    — Matthew Schnipper, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2025
  • And the lobster tweet is a relatively benign lie, more in the braggadocio category.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 4 July 2020
  • The public Uber displays little of this braggadocio, and competitors and critics are moving in.
    — Mike Isaac, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2019
  • DeSantis likes to gloat about the tourism boom in South Florida, but his braggadocio should make the skin crawl in other states.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Nas comes in on the first verse, swaggering into the track with usual rap braggadocio and showing love to his New York City roots.
    — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Part of Tesla’s allure rests in its cutting-edge image, which Musk helped hone through years of braggadocio and business breakthroughs.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Looking back, Lewin feels there was more to these calls than braggadocio or conviviality, like they were driven by some twisted sense of respect.
    — Dan Greene, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • At the height of his wealth, Polonsky’s larger-than-life persona and braggadocio often drew comparisons to Trump in the media.
    — Alexander Sazonov, Bloomberg.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The album is a hot mess of conflicted emotions, empty braggadocio, poor technique, and heartbreaking yet tiresome crying jags.
    — Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2025

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