Boasting
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boast
(n.) The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Vaunt, brag, BOAST.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To hear boasting in your dreams, you will sincerely regret an impulsive act, which will cause trouble to your friends. To boast to a competitor, foretells that you will be unjust, and will use dishonest means to overcome competition.
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Examples
- Centuries hence, we Frenchmen and Englishmen might be boasting and killing each other still, carrying out bravely the Devil's code of honour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- By a mixture of boasting, subtlety, and flattery he won over the young and ambitious Tsar, Alexander I--he was just thirty years old--to an alliance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mere boasting, Mr. Franklin, returned the old man obstinately. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It is true I little respect women or girls who are loquacious either in boasting the triumphs, or bemoaning the mortifications, of feelings. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There's no boasting in that letter, Fosco--she DOES know the Secret. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I am much afraid lest the small success I meet with in my enquiries will make this observation bear the air of an apology rather than of boasting. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- This, Sir Knight, said Rebecca, is but idle boasting--a brag of what you would have done had you not found it convenient to do otherwise. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Is the same to me, Sordo said simply and not boasting. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Oh, shameful, shameful ending, after such unseemly boasting! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Here's old Bounderby always boasting that at my age he lived upon twopence a month, or something of that sort. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Mr. Trabb, said I, it's an unpleasant thing to have to mention, because it looks like boasting; but I have come into a handsome property. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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