Synonyms for bragging
brag·ging

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1. brag, bragging, crow, crowing, vaporing, line-shooting, gasconadeadjective

   an instance of boastful talk

   "his brag is worse than his fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade"

   Synonyms:
   crowing, line-shooting, gasconade, brag, vaporing, crow

   Antonyms:
   humble

2. boastful, braggart(a), bragging(a), braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandisingadjective

   exhibiting self-importance

   "big talk"

   Antonyms:
   humble

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1. tomtoming

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How to use bragging in a sentence?

1. Stephen Farnsworth:

   Both parties want the bragging rights of a winner in Virginia. And if McAuliffe loses, that's going to scare some Democrats on the fence on the Biden agenda.

2. Barack Obama:

   He is bragging about how he destroyed collective bargaining rights in his state, he says that busting unions prepares him to fight ISIL. I didn't make that up. He said that.

3. Charles Haddon Spurgeon:

   It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them.

4. Saulo Moura da Cunha:

   It's not so surprising with an event of this nature that someone would be out there bragging.

5. Todd Smith:

   Millennial travelers are attracted to fun, fast-paced adventures that often start at the top of the bucket list, we often hear they areaiming to claim the bragging right of stepping foot on all seven continents before they turn 30.