boastful

[ UK /bˈə‍ʊstfə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈboʊstfəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. exhibiting self-importance
    big talk
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How To Use boastful In A Sentence

  • A couple of phone calls, arranged by a deep-sea diver I came to know while working on a story on the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua, led me to an alternately boastful and paranoidly surreptitious man named Steve. The Lampshade
  • Loman is a rather unpleasant figure throughout much of the play, a boastful blowhard, a bully, a coward.
  • He had a swashbuckling posture; but such was his powerful physique and piercing look, it seemed natural rather than boastful or proud. Seminary Boy
  • In love you have patience, kindness, the absence of jealousy, pride and boastfulness.
  • The sun dives deep into the foundations of your chart to give you a calm self-assurance that gets better results than other louder, boastful voices. The Sun
  • Unlike your average male specimen, he did not look proud and boastful when first me, then Riley squealed over his car.
  • Emma asked Mrs. Elton about her musical abilities, and she was both modest and boastful.
  • Also, we're reluctant to appear boastful. Times, Sunday Times
  • There were no trophies about the house, no framed photos, no boastful talk. Times, Sunday Times
  • The brother's got the boastful swagger of your favorite rapper, the entrepreneurial instincts of a street hustler and a pen as swift as his tongue is sharp.
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