How To Use Boastfulness In A Sentence
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In love you have patience, kindness, the absence of jealousy, pride and boastfulness.
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I am most unhappy at his boastfulness.
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It contrives to combine boastfulness, ignorance, insecurity and hostility in ample and self-reinforcing measures.
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They must choose between a brash boastfulness and a considered confidence that speaks to the convictions of people everywhere.
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His web site also displays a rather remarkable congenital boastfulness and an penchant for unusual capitalization "We are a better Charter Fishing Boat than the Saltwater Sport Fishing Charter Boats on the East Coast and in the Florida Keys, including the fleet of Deep Sea Fishing Boats in Key West".
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Those who disclaim trifling and obvious qualities are called humbugs and are more contemptible; and sometimes this seems to be boastfulness, like the Spartan dress; for both excess and great deficiency are boastful.
The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS
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With regard to truth, then, the intermediate is a truthful sort of person and the mean may be called truthfulness, while the pretence which exaggerates is boastfulness and the person characterized by it a boaster, and that which understates is mock modesty and the person characterized by it mock-modest.
The Nicomachean Ethics
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Boyish boastfulness which is at the same time coarse and clumsy ....
Letters of Anton Chekhov
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Host council member Mary Cheh introduced Gray a "leader free of vanity and boastfulness"; former school board chair Peggy Cooper Cafritz rose to tell the crowd, "You absolutely could not be in better hands.
DeMorning DeBonis: Oct. 8, 2010
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And so much arrogance and boastfulness from the great Obama himself.
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Those who disclaim trifling and obvious qualities are called humbugs and are more contemptible; and sometimes this seems to be boastfulness, like the
The Nicomachean Ethics
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It secured him, instantly, a reputation for boastfulness which was then at odds with his limited achievements.
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It contrives to combine boastfulness, ignorance, insecurity and hostility in ample and self-reinforcing measures.
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While duly respectful and betraying not a whit of boastfulness, that is a comment containing more than a hint of steel.
Undefined
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A sense of inferiority, whether justified or not, leads to boastfulness.
