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boastfulboast‧ful /ˈbəʊstfəl $ ˈboʊst-/ ●○○ adjective   - After they had drunk more wine, they started to become loud and boastful.
- In the weeks before the game, Ogden gave a number of boastful interviews to the press.
- And few are more humorous, possessing the ability to be simultaneously self-deprecating and boastful.
- He also seemed to be rather boastful and above himself.
- He is so boastful, so ready to justify himself.
- Love is never boastful, or conceited, or rude; never selfish, not quick to take offense.
- New York always has been such a prideful, boastful place with a myopic view of the rest of the world.
- The tower is a statement of arrival, as boastful and triumphant as the Tughluk buildings around me were understated and austere.
- This was in keeping with his nature, for he was boastful, intolerant and greedy.
- We'd always been boastful, conspicuous, triumphalist in our love; now we had to tell the World.
someone who boasts a lot► boastful someone who is boastful boasts a lot: · After they had drunk more wine, they started to become loud and boastful.· In the weeks before the game, Ogden gave a number of boastful interviews to the press. ► big-headed British informal someone who is big-headed thinks that they are very important and shows this by often boasting about their abilities or achievements: · I don't want to sound big-headed, but I thought my picture was the best. ► be all talk spoken if you say that someone is all talk , you mean that they make all their plans and their achievements seem more impressive than they really are, and people should not believe them: · Ralph's all talk. I wouldn't take him too seriously if I were you. ► name-dropper someone who often mentions the names of famous or important people that they have met or spoken to, in order to make people admire them: · Anna is a distant relative of the prime minister, and she's one of the worst name-droppers I've ever met. talking too proudly about yourself OPP modest—boastfully adverb—boastfulness noun [uncountable] |