Words similar to name-dropping

Example sentences for: name-dropping

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The tone is uneven: Dunne jerks from moralistic pronouncements on O.J.'s guilt to smarmy name-dropping with the ease of an evangelical hack.
Or the constant name-dropping: my old roommate, Stinky, is the papal nuncio.
But this book is weirdly enjoyable for what is not in it: conventional film gossip, name-dropping, show-biz folly of any kind.
The most apt description of Ellis' achievement comes from Rhonda Lieberman in the Village Voice , who says that in this portrait of "post-macho," name-dropping, Prada-clad male models, Ellis "captures a cultural moment of radical dandyhood."
His name-dropping is out of control.