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  • 41exaggeration — I noun addition, aggrandizement, augmentation, boast, brag, caricature, disproportion, distortion, embellishment, embroidery, enlargement, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, expansion, extravagance, extravagant statement, extremes,… …

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  • 42crânerie — [ kranri ] n. f. • 1784; de 2. crâne ♦ Vieilli Manière d agir d une personne qui tient à montrer du courage. ⇒ audace, bravade, fierté. « Le regard était droit, flambant de crânerie » (Martin du Gard). ⊗ CONTR. Poltronnerie. ● crânerie nom… …

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  • 43vantardise — [ vɑ̃tardiz ] n. f. • 1841; de vantard ♦ Caractère ou propos de vantard. ⇒ bluff, fanfaronnade, forfanterie. « Sans rodomontade et vantardise à l espagnole ou à la gasconne » (Gautier). ● vantardise nom féminin Habitude de se glorifier avec excès …

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  • 44-ade — Suffixe servant à former des substantifs fém., indiquant un ensemble (ex. colonnade), ou une action (ex. embrassade, bastonnade), ou un produit (ex. citronnade), parfois avec valeur péjorative. I. ⇒ ADE1, suff. Suff. formateur de subst. fém.… …

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  • 45blow — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. knock, stroke, hit; disappointment; blast, wind, breeze, gale. See impulse, surprise. v. brag; gasp, pant, puff; sound; storm, breeze, whiff, waft; slang, miss, squander. See failure, waste. II (Roget …

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  • 46brag — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. See boasting. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. boast, swagger, exult, gloat; see boast 1 . See Synonym Study at boast . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. boast, gloat, *blow one s own horn, crow, vaunt,… …

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  • 47vaunt — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. boast, brag, vapor, talk big. See boasting. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. boast, swagger, brag of, puff; see boast 1 . See Synonym Study at boast . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. boast, brag, crow, *talk …

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  • 48boast — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. brag, bragging, vaunt, source of pride, gasconade, pretension, self satisfaction, avowal, bravado, bluster. v. 1. [To brag] Syn. gloat, triumph, brag, swagger, exult, crow, show off, vaunt, swell, strut, bluff, flaunt,… …

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  • 49gasconade — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I noun An act of boasting: boast, brag, braggadocio, fanfaronade, rodomontade, vaunt. Informal: blow1. See PRAISE. II verb To talk with excessive pride: boast, brag, crow, rodomontade, vaunt. Informal: blow1. See PRAISE …

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  • 50rodomontado — I. noun see rodomontade I II. adjective see rodomontade III …

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