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bravado

n. a swaggering show of courage

braggadocio, rodomontade

n. vain and empty boasting

bluster

v. blow hard; be gusty, as of wind; "A southeaster blustered onshore"; "The flames blustered"

gas, boast, brag, vaunt, tout, swash, gasconade, shoot a line

v. show off

bluster, braggadocio, rodomontade

n. vain and empty boasting

crow, brag, bragging, crowing, vaporing, line-shooting, vapouring

n. an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade"

eclat, pomp

n. ceremonial elegance and splendor; "entered with much eclat in a coach drawn by eight white horses"

fustian, bombast, rant, claptrap, blah

n. pompous or pretentious talk or writing

pretentiousness, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness

n. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

boast, boasting, self-praise

n. speaking of yourself in superlatives

flourish

n. a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"

show

n. a social event involving a public performance or entertainment; "they wanted to see some of the shows on Broadway"

show, display

n. something intended to communicate a particular impression; "made a display of strength"; "a show of impatience"; "a good show of looking interested"

rhetoric, grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence

n. high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"

verboseness, verbosity

n. an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words

bravado, bluster

n. a swaggering show of courage

eclat, pomp

n. ceremonial elegance and splendor; "entered with much eclat in a coach drawn by eight white horses"

publicize, advertise, advertize, call attention to

v. call attention to; "Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS"

glory, rejoice proudly

v. rejoice proudly

clack, piffle, gibber, palaver, gabble, tattle, tittle-tattle, chatter, prate, prattle, twaddle, maunder, blabber

v. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

flash, swank, flaunt, show off, display proudly

v. display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously; "he showed off his new sports car"

brandish, exhibit aggressively

v. exhibit aggressively; "brandish a sword"

glorify, laud, extol, exalt, proclaim

v. praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking"

praise

v. express approval of; "The parents praised their children for their academic performance"

tout as

v. advertize in strongly positive terms

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