Boastful

//ˈbəʊstfʊl//

"Boastful" in a Sentence (12 examples)

That man is too boastful for my liking.

I'm always bored with his boastful talk.

Hero as he was, he was not boastful.

He is boastful of his success.

I'm tired of hearing your boastful tales.

Nobody can outdo my generosity, but I am only a little boastful.

Rima was a boastful girl.

I don't doubt he's very smart, nevertheless he's very boastful and magniloquent.

Confucius said: " Yu the Great's conduct, I could not point out any flaws. He consumes meager amount of food, while offering boastful riches to the Gods and ancestors; He always don the crudest attire, but wears lavish garments when worshipping; He resides in a small house, yet forges water ways and ditches with all his might. Figures like Yu the Great, I honestly cannot point out any reprehensible flaws."

In contrast with many of his contemporaries, he’s not brash and boastful.

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He wrote a boastful autobiography, recording all his great deeds.

It makes one's blood boil, yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen and our American descendants, with their boastful cry of liberty, have been and are so guilty

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