Sentence examples for boaster from inspiring English sources

Mr Draper, wide boy and bit of a boaster, is after all an authentic New Labour Man a member of the party for years, a bold moderniser no doubt, one-time trusty of Peter Mandelson (archetypal New Labour fixer and Dome Secretary), an intimate of that circle of advisers and friends of Tony and Gordon that has spread across Whitehall.

It was a splendid story, except for the fact that it relied almost entirely on claims made by one such insider, Derek Draper, a laughably implausible man who, for once being modest, describes himself as "a bit of a boaster".

The list of comic characters in the Tractatus is closely related to a passage in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, in which the boaster (the person who says more than the truth) is compared with the mock-modest man (the person who says less), and the buffoon (who has too much wit) is contrasted with the boor (who has too little).

Despite his affair with a secretary and his annoying mannerisms, Carol, at fifty-two, istillll married to the man her grandmother had called "the big boaster".

He has a toothy smile, a noisy laugh; he's a showoff and a boaster.

Millet, recording her own experience, is an exhibitionist and a boaster and, unfortunately, not much of a writer.

For a superior boaster Mr. Friedlander has a surprisingly warm side.

Kushner's New York is full of performers, boasters, wastrels, aesthetic activists.

With Twitter users now generating a billion tweets a week, some might prefer uninhibited boasters to practitioners of the "#humblebrag," who try to disguise self-promotion with self-deprecation — usually not well.

In this society saturated with diet tips and fitness blogs, with "bony boasters" showcasing their ribs on Instagram and bikini selfies on newsfeeds, our food neurosis seems explicit, on the table for all to see.

Author and poet Marcus Clarke defined a certain type of Australian culture back in 1869: "They are not a nation of snobs like the English or of extravagant boasters like the Americans or of reckless profligates like the French, they are simply a nation of drunkards".