Boasting

//ˈboʊstɪŋ// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The making of boasts. uncountable
  2. 2
    speaking of yourself in superlatives wordnet
  3. 3
    An individual boast or bout of boasting.

    "Solomon says, "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." Some, as soon as their vain boastings were uttered, were made monuments of divine justice."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of boast form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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bluffblusterboastboastboastfulbombast

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"I don't like his boasting of his success in business."

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