Boastly
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 In a boastful manner; boastfully, boastingly. nonstandard, rare
"But a significant phenomenon observed throughout the whole is that these poems underwent copious deletions and emendations by the hand of Blake, who, ten years later, boastly told of his "long Poem ... on One Grand Theme, Similar to Homer's Illiad^([sic]) or Milton's Paradise Lost"; […]"
Example
More examples"But a significant phenomenon observed throughout the whole is that these poems underwent copious deletions and emendations by the hand of Blake, who, ten years later, boastly told of his "long Poem ... on One Grand Theme, Similar to Homer's Illiad^([sic]) or Milton's Paradise Lost"; […]"
Etymology
From boast + -ly.
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