The word 'bragging' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to someone's excessively self-promotional behavior. For example: "John's friends were getting tired of his bragging about his new job."
The 36-year-old musician, his crinkly curls prematurely greying, his mouth fast to resolve into a smile, is not bragging.
Instead of bragging about the EU being the "largest donor of aid" they are actually the largest beneficiaries from unfair compensation to the producers of coffee and of many other European imports.
Bryant spoke to the Guardian after Labour received criticism for tweeting that it would not reverse £83m of cuts to the Arts Council of England's budget, which some writers took as "bragging" about its commitment to reducing funding.
We have forgotten since then how the ranks of the parliamentary Conservative party – though not all by any means – were cheerleaders for the war, and I can remember them standing in their seats baying, bragging and gesticulating at Kennedy as he walked in.
Miami can be right up there with LA or Vegas for bragging rights to the kookiest and the weirdest.
They kept to themselves and never walked around bragging about it.
Labour has been accused of bragging about its commitment to £83m of cuts to arts funding, prompting deputy leader, Harriet Harman, to defend her party's commitment to culture.
Yanis Varoufakis could not resist bragging.
They sounded like they were bragging that they had won at every competition they set up in their head attending an Ivy League school, getting the corporate job, landing a rich husband, and now becoming an alpha mom who tries to make mothers who must work or who enjoy working feel inadequate.But today, Lisa Belkin celebrates how much more ambitious women have become.
CNSA is bragging, for example, that by placing an optical telescope on the Moon, Chang'e-3 will have achieved something "that so far hasn't been done by other countries".
Mr Obama, having failed to fundamentally change the way America interacts with the world, has fallen back on a defensive strategy in which the only policies worth bragging about are those that project strength.
