boastful
adjective
given to or characterized by boasting.
boastfully
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a word derived from
boastful.
Example Sentences
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She doesn't say that boastfully, conveying an understanding of what it's like to be knocked to the lowest rung of a ladder and fight to stay alive.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2024
He’s boastfully summering in Italy and reveling in his luxurious wedding on All-In, the podcast that he co-hosts.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2023
“If I liked something as a kid, I still like it,” he said boastfully.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2021
“It’s a Grinling Gibbons,” Grandmother Thomasina tells her boastfully — a cornucopia of fruits and nuts and foliage evoking the lost grandeur of the British gentry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2020
“I’m probably just as good an atheist as you are,” she speculated boastfully.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
