Exhibiting self-importance.
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Jason Barnett and Michele Austin are equally good as the boastful neighbours.
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How many times in your life have you heard this boastful remark:
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I grow boastful; I am an old man and should know better.
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She was surprised to hear something almost boastful in her own tone.
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And while he was there he heard the Giant speak boastful words.
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His eyes fell upon the letter containing his boastful assurance of victory.
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He said they were his in fact, but men were ever boastful.
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False and boastful conceits and phrases mount upwards and take their place.
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This boastful phrase might have been prompted by the most profound Machiavellism.
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This boastful phrase might have been prompted by the most profound Machiavelism.
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The only time that British generals become boastful is over their dug-outs.
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They were as boastful as Homeric heroes, and for the same reason.
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They say, those boastful English, that it is the Refuge of many.
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Then there was a great deal of laughter and much boastful dispute.
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While the bartender burns incense, the square mouth grows scornful, laconic, boastful.
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Thus for a long time he stayed, and was secure and boastful.
