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boastful
boast‧ful/ˈbəʊstfəl $ ˈboʊst-/ adjective talking too proudly about yourself OPP modest
—boastfully adverb
—boastfulness noun [UNCOUNTABLE]
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ After they had drunk more wine, they started to become loud and boastful. ▪ In the weeks before the game, Ogden gave a number of boastful interviews to the press. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And few are more humorous, possessing the ability to be simultaneously self-deprecating and boastful. ▪ He also seemed to be rather boastful and above himself. ▪ He is so boastful, so ready to justify himself. ▪ Love is never boastful, or conceited, or rude; never selfish, not quick to take offense. ▪ New York always has been such a prideful, boastful place with a myopic view of the rest of the world. ▪ The tower is a statement of arrival, as boastful and triumphant as the Tughluk buildings around me were understated and austere. ▪ This was in keeping with his nature, for he was boastful, intolerant and greedy. ▪ We'd always been boastful, conspicuous, triumphalist in our love; now we had to tell the World.
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