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Boastfully

Boastful \Boast"ful\, a. Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.

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boastfully

adv. In a boastful manner.

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boastfully

adv. in a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening" [syn: vauntingly, big, large]

Usage examples of "boastfully".

The few splendors they could boastfully display to visitors had, in my opinion, been crafted by some different and vanished race.

She shuddered as she thought of the gifts that her brother had borne that morning long ago, the slate that she had boastfully enjoyed.

As an experienced bee man, he said boastfully, he had no fear of bees, African or any other kind.

I do not speak boastfully - as Gats Hackett does - I merely cite a simple, self-evident fact.

I saw them reaching into my soul, just as they reach into Mulligan's pocket, reaching to expropriate the value of my person, just as they reach to expropriate his wealth—I saw the impertinent malice of mediocrity boastfully holding up its own emptiness as an abyss to be filled by the bodies of its betters—I saw them seeking, just as they seek to feed on Mulligan's money, to feed on those hours when I wrote my music and on that which made me write it, seeking to gnaw their way to self-esteem by extorting from me the admission that they were the goal of my music, so that precisely by reason of my achievement, it would not be they who'd acknowledge my value, but I who would bow to theirs.