boastingly

Zora feigned great interest when he boastingly told of the importance of his work, and insinuatingly, she flattered him until, in his vanity, he finally offered to take her to the arsenal and show her through it.

"The Golden Girl of Munan" by Harl Vincent, part 9 Johnny Pez 2009

Rather boastingly, I smirked and let her know I could do one better than that.

Matt’s Cinema Diary, July 93 – JURASSIC PARK! | Obsessed With Film 2008

Scratch out, erase, never to be read, every part of my preceding letters, where I have boastingly mentioned it.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

When the marquis saw him return, and recollected the futility of those exertions, by which he had boastingly promised to recover

A Sicilian Romance 2004

I happened to be running together with this youth, who threw down by the force of his arm every wall that came in his way, and pulled up by the strength of his fist every big tree he saw, exclaiming, boastingly:

The Gulistan of Sa'di 2003

When another of the generals, who thought he had performed considerable service for the Athenians, boastingly compared his actions with those of Themistocles, he told him that once upon a time the Day after the Festival found fault with the Festival:

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

This did not prevent him (even though it may quite possibly have been true) from contradicting himself at times (as with regard to the hour at which they had last met), whether he forgot himself at such moments and told the truth, or invented a lie, boastingly or from a sentimental affectation or because he thought it amusing to baffle his questioner.

The Captive 2003

And now, sitting at the door of the dosshouse, he boastingly related that for a long time past Redka had been asking him to go and live with her, but he had not gone because he did not want to part with the company.

Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories 2003

This is an hyperbolical form of speech, in which they boastingly extol the loftiness of the structure they are attempting to raise.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

Which the followers of Hillel nevertheless received not: and therein not justly indeed; when they feign such a voice to have come to themselves from heaven, as a definitive oracle for the authority of the school of Hillel, not to be gainsaid: concerning which the Talmudists speak very frequently, and very boastingly.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979