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Meanings of boastfulness in English

Portuguese
vanglória
Catalan
vanaglòria
Spanish
fanfarronada

Outspoken conceit.

        vanglória
        Usage of boastfulness in English
        1
        But Theodora, in the boastfulness of her new lungs, yelled uninterruptedly on.
        New Faces
        2
        The boy talked brightly, and his air of boastfulness fell from him.
        Princess Maritza
        3
        I accept your reproof, child, for boastfulness is hateful in a warrior.
        The Hot Swamp
        4
        Instantly his attitude of good-natured bantering and pompous boastfulness dropped from him.
        Jungle Tales of Tarzan
        5
        Totty remonstrated with him: he laughed, and drank on out of boastfulness.
        Thyrza
        6
        They seemed to have had bad hunting, for their boastfulness was gone.
        The Ivory Trail
        7
        Her lying revealed a mixture of imagination, boastfulness, deception, delusion, and dissimulation.
        Pathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forens...
        8
        There was nothing of boastfulness or of excitement in his words.
        God's Country—And the Woman
        9
        They were perfectly calm and spoke without any boastfulness in a self-reliant way.
        The Transvaal from Within: A Private Record of Public Affairs
        10
        There was no boastfulness in this, and Velasco knew it to be true.
        The Ape, the Idiot & Other People
        11
        Yes, true love expresses itself, not in clamorous boastfulness, but in quiet services.
        My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
        12
        The boastfulness of the advance is gone,-andthere is chance for sober reflection.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 / A Mag...
        13
        Added to our genius for boastfulness and impiety, it is a crowning defect.
        The Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Ti...
        14
        Without such reason, to repeat it would have been mere boastfulness.
        George Silverman's Explanation
        15
        Marc'antonio now and always mentioned his travels with an innocent boastfulness.
        Sir John Constantine / Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abr...
        16
        I never forget nowt, said Paul, life returning through a vein of boastfulness.
        The Fortunate Youth
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        Portuguese
        vanglória
        Boastfulness through the time
        Boastfulness across language varieties
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