Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Given to boasting; vaunting; bragging.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tending to
boast orbrag .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective exhibiting self-importance
Etymologies
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Examples
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But Ahmed's defense attorney countered during the bench trial that investigators had no evidence that Ahmed sought to act on what he called boastful chatter from a misguided student.
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His defense attorney says investigators had no evidence that the suspect meant to act on what he calls boastful chatter.
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But Ahmed's defense attorney countered during the bench trial that investigators had no evidence that Ahmed sought to act on what he called boastful chatter from a misguided student.
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But Ahmed's defense attorney countered during the bench trial that investigators had no evidence that Ahmed sought to act on what he called boastful chatter from a misguided student.
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But Ahmed's defense attorney countered during the bench trial that investigators had no evidence that Ahmed sought to act on what he called boastful chatter from a misguided student.
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Roosters are defined as boastful, cocky, hard-working and flashy ding! ding! slide-whistle! ding!
Archive 2005-02-01 Michelle Collins 2005
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Its constructor did not overrate the benefit he had conferred when he wrote in an inscription which can scarcely be called boastful:
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No one resigns willingly such rights as yesterday gave me; and, let me speak a boastful word, sooner than yield them up to man of woman born, I would hold a fair field against all comers, with grinded sword and sharp spear, from sunrise to sunset, for three days 'space.
The Betrothed Walter Scott 1801
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There was a rakish, vagabond smartness, and a kind of boastful rascality, about the whole man, that was worth a mine of gold.
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That gave, or could have given the impression, or could have caused the danger of creating a certain kind of boastful attitude, creating
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