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单词 boastful
释义
boastful
adjective
disapproving
uk
/ˈbəʊst.fəl/us
/ˈboʊst.fəl/
praisingyourself and what you have done
自吹自擂的，自夸的
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
boastful
  • boastfulHe was confident, not boastful.
  • bumptiousHis critics have depicted him as a bumptious, privately-educated son of privilege.
  • ostentatiousShe is not impressed by his ostentatious displays of wealth.
  • full of yourselfCarolyn liked confident guys, but thought Oscar a bit too brash and full of himself.
  • overweeningHis overweening arrogance is matched only by his incompetence.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Boasting
  • bighead
  • blow
  • blowyourown trumpet/hornidiom
  • blowhard
  • boast
  • boastfully
  • boastfulness
  • brag
  • braggadocio
  • braggadocious
  • braggart
  • bragging rights
  • chest-beating
  • chest-thumping
  • crow
  • flex
  • humblebrag
  • outbrag
  • rodomontade
  • swaggerer

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boastfully
boastfulness
(Definition ofboastfulfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • As he drank he grew boastful.
  • He referred in this irreverent and boastful speech to his grandmother, the regent.
  • Luck, misleading and alluring, favored Jack for a while, transforming him until he was radiant, boastful, exultant.
  • The note referred in boastful language to the victorious German armies.

boastful| American Dictionary

boastful
adjective
us
/ˈboʊst·fəl/

boastfuladjective(SPEAK PROUDLY)

having atendencytopraiseyourself and what you have done
(Definition ofboastfulfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofboastful

boastful
Their profiles are for the most part their self-representations, and it is clear that they makeboastfulclaims about their prowess as warriors on behalf of their communities.
From theCambridge English Corpus
I do not want to soundboastful, but my report should not be reduced to that issue.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
There is nothing personallyboastfulabout that statement, because it is in the nature of the case.
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I do not say that in anyboastfulspirit.
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It is not undulyboastfulto say that.
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I know that it isboastfulfor me to say so.
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From a national point of view we generally are not aboastfulpeople.
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We know that they have traditionally been proud—boastfuleven—to be the high-tax, high-spending, high-borrowing and high-inflation party.
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We have in the past, unfortunately, been veryboastfulof controlling the world and even the ocean.
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I do not say this in anyboastfulway, but merely to show how much could be done with a little encouragement and help.
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It will be seen as a tired and enfeebled colossus, a continent filled withboastfulbabble, fragile and old, nothing more than a historical museum.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
It would beboastfulto suggest that we had it perfectly right.
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He faced death, not with aboastfulgaiety, but with a confident gaiety.
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Without being undulyboastful, that is not a bad record for two years.
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The sameboastful, arrogant and ignorant assertions are being made.
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