CHEST-THUMPING Synonyms: 88 Similar and Opposite Words

chest-thumping

noun

Definition of chest-thumping

as in arrogance

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Recent Examples of chest-thumping The defensive spark plug somehow jumped higher than any Nuggets forward did for a rebound in Minneapolis last Thursday night, chest-thumping the glass at the top of his leap. — Sean Keeler, Twin Cities, 5 May 2026 The Sabres took the chest-thumping contest, out-hitting the B’s 53-38. — Stephen Conroy, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2026 But his uppercase blasts, chest-thumping rants and coarse insults are more likely now to draw a Gallic shrug. — Serge Schmemann, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026 His remarks about Iran moved beyond personal attacks or chest-thumping nationalism to take on a tone of collective punishment and civilizational destruction. — Stephanie A, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for chest-thumping

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Noun

An America that seeks justice with dignity and wisdom, not arrogance and gore.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
These fascinating, illuminating episodes raise the question of whether great fiction requires the kind of single-mindedness and even arrogance that McCarthy cultivated.

— New York Times, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of arrogance

Noun

Across the conference table, Sosanya plays Beatrice like steel swaddled in cashmere, while Miles Jupp, as her colleague David, peels away his genteel snobbery to reveal an unexpectedly dorky underbelly.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026
Ink has great fun dramatizing how the staid postwar consensus — a world of snobbery, dignity, and unions — was eclipsed by The Sun’s muscular populism.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of snobbery

Noun

The rise of loans at Americans’ fingertips Short-term financing has skyrocketed in popularity since the pandemic, when the emergence of these on-demand pay tools, as well as buy-now, pay-later apps aligned with increases in inflation.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026
Given Abbey’s anxieties about spending money and fear of not having enough, Stacy plans to use very conservative assumptions for inflation, health costs and average returns when making her projections based on Abbey’s savings today.

— Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of inflation

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And yet, the collateral damage that self-assertion can cause is also considered — women are not forgotten in the picture.

— Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2026
Against the backdrop of Southeast Asia’s colonial history, durian’s signature smell can also be understood as a means of nationalistic self-assertion.

— JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 25 Mar. 2026

Definition of self-assertion

Noun

Often, entrants include these alongside aristocratic and highbrow interests in a way that could reduce the appearance of snobbishness.

— Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 8 Sep. 2026
There’s a snobbishness to that kind of comment, which doesn’t make any sense to me.

— Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Mar. 2025

Definition of snobbishness

Noun

It’s been a classic staple over decades of British comedy, which from Basil Fawlty to David Brent has rejoiced in puncturing pomposity to reveal idiocy and incompetence.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
After a decade of being held together by pomposity and average players, the bill has come due.

— Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 29 July 2026

Definition of pomposity

Noun

The haughtiness and audacity of RHONY set a precedent for future cities, making the infamous season nine Gangster Lunch an obvious scene to recreate.

— Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026
Sarah and Billo were plain-sailing people who didn’t pursue beauty or seek out texture, whereas Fanny was an exquisite snob without the circumstances to support such haughtiness.

— Claire Carusillo, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of haughtiness

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