boastful
given to or characterized by boasting.
Origin of boastful
1Other words for boastful
Other words from boastful
- boast·ful·ly, adverb
- boast·ful·ness, noun
- o·ver·boast·ful, adjective
- o·ver·boast·ful·ly, adverb
- o·ver·boast·ful·ness, noun
- un·boast·ful, adjective
- un·boast·ful·ly, adverb
- un·boast·ful·ness, noun
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How to use boastful in a sentence
Without attribution, that does sound just a tad boastful, but it may well be true.
The greatest prison escape ever? ‘The Confidence Men’ tells a sensational true story. | Michael Dirda | June 16, 2021 | Washington PostEveryone was loudmouthed and boastful — it’s Boston, after all — but also visibly nervous about whether Babe Ruth’s ghost would show up and wreck what seemed like a beautiful team.
Despite boastful claims of archival excavation, the author does not deeply engage the primary source material available in American repositories.
The boastful Soviets had sent their Luna rockets on a world tour.
Lunik: Inside the CIA’s audacious plot to steal a Soviet satellite | Bobbie Johnson | January 28, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewMost embarrassing, they made boastful claims about their closeness with and influence over all sorts of politicians and government officials.
On video, Raymond Santana was smug, boastful, and nonchalant by turns, vividly reenacting who did what during the rape.
He then regales them, boastful without even the sheen of a humblebrag, with tales of his glittering political career.
Redford Takes on Rahm in the Furious Blur of ‘Chicagoland’ | Tim Teeman | March 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWater got trucked in, and CNN arrived on the scene, creating a national embarrassment for normally boastful Texas officials.
The self-promotion, Seelie thinks, is somewhat boastful, and he wonders, is it worth it?
A Most Illegal Adventure with New York City’s Wildest Underground Event Planners | Nina Strochlic | December 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut he couldn't resist adding that it was "difficult to sing," and that "its sentiments are boastful and bloodthirsty."
Star-Spangled Confederates: How Southern Sympathizers Decided Our National Anthem | Jefferson Morley | July 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThey heard the boastful war songs of their foes echoing weirdly across the plain.
Three Sioux Scouts | Elmer Russell GregorA moment afterward the Kiowa finished his boastful tale, and received a noisy ovation from his people.
Three Sioux Scouts | Elmer Russell GregorThey glared fiercely into the east, and murmured boastful threats against the hated foes in the distant camp.
Three Sioux Scouts | Elmer Russell GregorThey lingered a moment or so, shouting boastful threats against the Pawnees.
Three Sioux Scouts | Elmer Russell GregorThere would come between me and my page Archie Merridew's pink and boastful face as I had seen him issue from the library door.
In Accordance with the Evidence | Oliver Onions
British Dictionary definitions for boastful
/ (ˈbəʊstfʊl) /
tending to boast; characterized by boasting
Derived forms of boastful
- boastfully, adverb
- boastfulness, noun
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