Boasting

Word BOASTING
Character 8
Hyphenation boast ing
Pronunciations /ˈboʊstɪŋ/

Definitions and meanings of "Boasting"

What do we mean by boasting?

To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.

To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.

To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.

To play a boast shot.

To possess something special.

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The word "boasting" in example sentences

Fresh from the garden it might have been once, but then it was preserved, processed, packaged, plastered with a label boasting how fresh it is then finally sent to wait for you in your supermarket. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He also bankrolled Tennessee’s popular annual music festival, Bonnaroo, and cofounded ATO Records, a label boasting My Morning Jacket, David Gray, and Liz Phair. ❋ Fred Goodman (2010)

You get a modest pre-game overview with quotes from players and fans, stats for each quarter, the post-win boasting, the press conference interviews for each game and final trophy ceremony. ❋ Michael Giltz (2010)

I apologized if I missed the humor in boasting about being unemployed and taking psych courses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I know the rank and file believe the boasting from the front office that they are going to win so many seats this fall they will win back Congress, but I tell you, I just don't see it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's discouraging to see how many "book people" (at least one assumes that's what they consider themselves to be) take pride in boasting their scorn for a magnificent novel. ❋ Roger Sutton (2008)

Newmania said ... anon they probably work for the state which as the New Statesman was proudly boasting is better paid than its private opposite numbers now. ❋ Newmania (2007)

Or consider renting one for the day at any sporting-good store (watch for signs boasting "fiets," the Dutch word for bike). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Newton elected to write his already difficult Principia Mathematica in Latin, boasting that this would make it even less accessible to the vulgar. ❋ Hitchens, Christopher (2008)

Kaysar is playing the classic loser game in boasting about his pride and dignity after appearing on a reality show and losing it TWICE. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The whole poem, conventionally thought of as an orgy of boasting, is a denunciation of power politics, British as well as German. ❋ Unknown (1942)

It is a good household Finn had, without grudging, without lust, without vain boasting, without chattering, without any slur on any one of the Fenians. ❋ Unknown (1919)

We are directed to avoid vain boasting, and to look upon it not only as a weak, but a very evil thing. ❋ Unknown (1721)

These things are not brought to pass by any thing done by us, and therefore all boasting is excluded; he who glories must not glory in himself, but in the Lord. ❋ Unknown (1721)

• Even big food companies tout whole and less-processed foods, indicating that they at least have heard the message (as in Haagan-Dazs 'ice cream label boasting of having just five whole and recognizable food ingredients). ❋ Steve Ettlinger (2010)

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