The word "braggadocio" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe boastful or arrogant behavior, often in a playful or exaggerated manner. Example: "His constant braggadocio about his achievements made it hard for others to take him seriously." Alternatives include "boastfulness" or "swagger."
For all the braggadocio and laughter there seems to be so much buried trauma and insecurity.
Bernie Ebbers, the cowboy-booted chief executive of WorldCom, who became the personification of 1990s telecoms braggadocio, had come to say "sorry".
MARC ANDREESSEN knows a thing or two about Silicon Valley's penchant for status symbols and its braggadocio.
He was also a humble man (raised by a formidable mother, a New Englander whose catchphrase was "no one likes a braggadocio").
"My answer is: bring them on".This braggadocio prompted a furious and, for once, concerted response from Democrats.
The image that may well linger in the public mind is not of contrition, but of braggadocio in the face of a net that is inexorably closing in.
It is easy to compare ministerial braggadocio about spending with Treasury tables and the ominous sums done by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (though the fact that Mr Brown's claims look implausible does not, in itself, make them lies: he may still really believe them).There may be something to all of those explanations.
Clues about modern politics lurk within this Bush boom.There are many reasons why a man mocked as a buttoned-up toff for citing his mother's advice, "Nobody likes a braggadocio, George", or woodenly assuring a New Hampshire crowd, "Message: I care"—is now praised for his modest reticence and bipartisan dignity.
Despite the braggadocio of Israel's politicians and burning Arab resentment, neither Israelis nor Egyptians desire a return to war.
But Iranian braggadocio soon turned to queasy contrition.
And Taiwan's leaders, for all their braggadocio, are pragmatists too.
