fanfaronade
121fanfare — noun 1) a fanfare announced her arrival Syn: trumpet call, flourish, fanfaronade; archaic trump 2) the project was greeted with great fanfare Syn: fuss, commotion, show, display, ostentation, flashiness, pageantry …
122bluff — I adj 1. frank, open, honest, candid, plain spoken, outspoken; direct, plain, straightforward, downright; crude, rough, unvarnished, burly, blustering. 2. steep, sheer, abrupt, sudden, precipitous; perpendicular, vertical; acclivitous, ascending …
123bluster — v 1. spout, blast, roar, trumpet; gasp, wheeze, huff, puff, pant. 2. swagger, strut, roister, harangue, Sl. blow hard, Sl. blow, Sl. talk big; throw one s weight around, be overbearing, lord it over, give [s.o.] a hard time, bully, badger. n 3.… …
124boast — v 1. brag, crow, Australian. skite, beat the drum, draw the longbow, Archaic. vaunt, trumpet, blow one s own trumpet, toot one s own horn, sing one s own praises, Sl. shoot the bull, Sl. lay it on thick; bluster, roister, puff, Sl. blow hard, Sl …
125bravado — n braggadocio, gasconade, swagger; bragging, boasting, blowing, crowing, vaunting, name dropping; fanfaronade, bluster, Sl. hot air, Sl. gas; bombast, pomposity, rodomontade, grandiosity, grandiloquence, magniloquence …
126claptrap — n 1. bombast, rodomontade, rant, inflation, fustian, cant, jargon, empty words, hogwash; ostentation, sensationalism, frippery, gaudiness, tawdriness, glitter, gloss; pretentiousness, pretension, pretense, false show; bluster, fanfaronade,… …
127conceit — n 1. self esteem, self importance, self approbation, self admiration, self love, self worship, self adulation; pride, vanity, vainglory, vaingloriousness, bovarism, egotism, Inf. ego trip, Inf. big head; self praise, self glorification,… …
128egoism — n 1. selfishness, self indulgence, self gratification, self satisfaction, self serving; self consideration, self interest, self aggrandisement, Inf. looking out for number one; personalism, privatism, individualism. 2. egotism, self conceit, self …
