boast
verb (used without object)
to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
boastingly
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a word derived from
boast.
Example Sentences
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Shoemakers’ wives and bakers’ daughters are people of whose acquaintance nobody ever speaks boastingly.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
He spoke rather boastingly; perhaps more to impress his followers than from impulse.
From The Strength of the Pines by Edison Marshall
Then the gourd answered boastingly that it had grown as tall as the palm in fewer days than the tree could count years.
From The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles by H. J. Wilmot-Buxton
He told me, boastingly, that at Hamilton he had made eight hundred dollars by the present extraordinary rise in the price of wheat.
From Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
The prince showed the cat to his friends and said, boastingly: "Nature is nothing; my art is more powerful and can do this and other things."
From Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane
