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Meanings of boasting in English

Russian
хвастливость
Portuguese
ostentação
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To speak with excessive pride and satisfaction with oneself.

        хвастливость
        Portuguese
        ostentamento
        Catalan
        autobombo

        Speaking of yourself in superlatives.

              ostentamento
              Synonyms
              Examples for "boast"
              Examples for "boast"
              1
              Salt-N-Pepa boast a friendship and working relationship that has spanned 30 years.
              Ebony
              2
              But it was a good performance. He allowed himself this small boast.
              Strange Sweet Song
              3
              Maria Theresa could hardly allow such a boast to pass without comment.
              Wired
              4
              It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
              Pride and Prejudice
              5
              That boast was at the very heart of their Project Fear campaign.
              The Guardian
              1
              It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the reproach of falsehood.'
              Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
              2
              Could we go along forever living on the flubdub of self-praise?
              Under the Skylights
              3
              Scipio was in personal danger, and this took away what is odious in self-praise.
              Literary Character of Men of Genius / Drawn from Their Own Feeli...
              4
              It is said that vain self-praise stinks in the nostrils.
              The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
              5
              The boys could not repress a smile at Chunky's self-praise.
              The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies; Or, The Secret of the Lost C...
              1
              Great restlessness and jactitation set in with the renewal of the circulation in the extremities.
              Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885

              An instance of boastful talk.

                  Usage of boasting in English
                  1
                  Other topics best avoided include boasting about the kids, politics and religion.
                  Independent.ie
                  2
                  Young forward Jonathan Freeman kicked four, with the Lions boasting 11 goalkickers.
                  The Guardian
                  3
                  Then they spent the remainder of the year boasting of the achievement.
                  The Story of a Pioneer
                  4
                  The creature was boasting, but Sharn-igon could believe the story easily enough.
                  Jem
                  5
                  Despite boasting one of the best scoring margins in the nation, No.
                  Reuters
                  6
                  The Hare was once boasting of his speed before the other animals.
                  Aesop's Fables
                  7
                  In a few moments, Thars's boasting would prove either true or empty.
                  Envoy
                  8
                  It maybe but empty boasting, but there may be something in it.
                  A March on London: Being a Story of Wat Tyler's Insurrection
                  9
                  Rovers were the best pilots, he offered without a trace of boasting.
                  Ilse Witch
                  10
                  But God has prevented boasting by doing as he has done; Eph.
                  The Pharisee and the Publican
                  11
                  The Russian laughed scornfully at what seemed to him the wildest boasting.
                  The Eagle of the Empire: A Story of Waterloo
                  12
                  Frederick, I hope you won't mind that I've been boasting about you.
                  The Wolf’s Hour
                  13
                  He went on boasting, but he did it in an inoffensive way.
                  The Rise of David Levinsky
                  14
                  The children of God do the works without boasting, obeying His laws.
                  Paris Talks
                  15
                  The boasting of New York can scarcely drown the boasting of London.
                  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 / Devoted ...
                  16
                  Giuliani was boasting about his activities to every reporter who would listen.
                  NY Magazine
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