Chapter Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers of Index by Roget's Thesaurus

A boaster, braggart, braggadocio, Gascon, fanfaron, puppy, peacock; a pretender, soi-disant.

(Verbs). To boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, puff, flourish, crake, crack, strut, swagger, swank, gas.

To exult, croak, crow, chuckle, triumph, glory.

(Phrases). To talk big; se faire valoir; faire claquer son fouet; to blow one's own trumpet.

(Adjectives). Boasting, vaunting, etc., vainglorious, braggart.

Elate, elated, flushed, jubilant.

(Phrases). On stilts; cock-a-hoop.

• Undue assumption of superiority.

Insolence (Substantives), haughtiness, arrogance, imperiousness, contumeliousness, superciliousness, bumptiousness, swagger, swank.

Impertinence, sauciness, pertness, flippancy, dicacity, petulance, malapertness.

Assumption, presumption, presumptuousness, forwardness, impudence, assurance, front, face, cheek, lip, side, brass, shamelessness, a hardened front, effrontery, audacity, procacity, self-assertion, nerve.

(Phrases). The Great Panjandrum himself; a cool hand.

(Verbs). To be insolent, etc.; to bluster, vapour, swagger, swank, swell, roister, arrogate, assume, bluff.

To domineer, bully, beard, snub, huff, outface, outlook, outstare, outbrazen, bear down, beat down, trample on, tread under foot, outbrave, hector.

To presume, take liberties or freedoms.

(Phrases). To give oneself airs; to lay down the law; to put on side; to ride the high horse; to lord it over; traiter, ou regarder de haut en bas; to ride rough-shod over; to carry with a high hand; to put on side; to carry it off; to brave it out.

(Adjectives). Insolent, etc.; haughty, arrogant, imperious, dictatorial, high-handed, contumelious, supercilious, uppish, self-assertive, bumptious, overbearing, intolerant, assumptive.

Flippant, pert, perky, cavalier, saucy, cheeky, forward, impertinent, malapert.

Blustering, swaggering, swanky, vapouring, bluff, roistering, rollicking, high-flown, assuming, presuming, presumptuous, self-assertive, impudent, free, brazen, brazen-faced, shameless, unblushing, unabashed.

(Adverbs). Ex cathedra; cock-a-hoop.

• Servility (Substantives), obsequiousness, suppleness, fawning, slavishness, abjectness, prostration, prosternation, genuflexion, etc. 990, abasement.

Fawning, mealy-mouthedness, sycophancy, see Flattery 833 and Humility 879.

A sycophant, parasite, toadeater, toady, spaniel, lickspittle, hanger - on, tuft - hunter, time - server, reptile, cur 941.

(Verbs). To cringe, bow, stoop, kneel, fall on one's knees, etc.

To sneak, crawl, crouch, truckle to, grovel, fawn.