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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"Oh, I'll land all right," said Joe, though not boastingly.
From Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer by Vance Barnum
Don’t include me in your disreputable pilferings, Mr. Fogg,” declared Ralph, “you may get a bill for the two fowls you so boastingly allude to.”
From Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car by Allen Chapman
"Evunia went to walk with her husband and Hania," answered the little girl, boastingly.
From Hania by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The door could be, and had been, closed by a spring, but it needed that key to open it, as he had boastingly remembered.
From Dorothy at Oak Knowe by Evelyn Raymond
And again he said, not boastingly, but with a quiet setting of his tense jaw muscles: “I’ve come to stay.”
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
