name dropping
Casual fame referencing
Name dropping is the attempt to impress someone by mentioning the famous or influential people that you know, or that you claim to know.
The expression is often used disparagingly.
Building professional relationships
- schmoozingCasual strategic socializing
- influencePower to affect others
- cloutInformal power or punch
- connectionsRelationships between things
insider · cachet · prestige · status-seeking · social climbing · impressing · credibility · leveraging
Excessive self-praise
- showoffOne who flaunts abilities
- vanityExcessive pride in oneself
- self-promotionPublicizing one's own merits
- flauntingOstentatious display of something
swagger · pretentious · grandstanding · immodesty · ostentatious · conceited · pompous · smugness
networking
Building professional relationships
- schmoozingCasual strategic socializing
- influencePower to affect others
- cloutInformal power or punch
connections · insider · cachet · prestige · status-seeking · social climbing · impressing · credibility · leveraging · ingratiating
boasting
Excessive self-praise
- showoffOne who flaunts abilities
- vanityExcessive pride in oneself
- self-promotionPublicizing one's own merits
flaunting · swagger · pretentious · grandstanding · immodesty · ostentatious · conceited · pompous · smugness · humblebrag
- bad behaviorcheating, stealing, lying, greed, selfishness
- ego displaysarrogance, vanity, boasting, showboating, braggadocio
- name gamesfamous faces, who am I
- pet peevesannoyance, loud chewing, irritation, loud talking, frustration
- Impression managementself-presentation, first impression, body language, eye contact, dress code
- pretentiousnesspretentious, pretentiousness, pretension, pompous, pomposity
name droppingmodesty
Absence of vanity
humility · self-effacement · unpretentiousness · understatement · downplaying
name droppingdiscretion
Careful judgment in speech
flying under the radar · privacy · anonymity · tactfulness · anonymizing
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