Meanings of vain boasting in English

Let us court no applause, indulge in no spirit of vain boasting.

This is no vain boasting-receiveit not so, good friends: it is but truth.

She was sincere herself, and was consequently not on her guard against vain boasting.

Lord Claud, however, was not given to vain boasting.

Thereupon the clerks declare that in these sayings are superstition, divination, presumptuous assertion and vain boasting.

Let us shun vain boasting: let us be silent, and let our deeds speak for us.

It is just possible we may escape; but vain boasting is in no case deserving of approbation.

But this is vain boasting.

The cousin laughed openly at his vain boasting, and to avenge himself the rascal told her that he was better than she.

It is a good household Finn had, without grudging, without lust, without vain boasting, without chattering, without any slur on any one of the Fenians.

It is a good household Finn had, without grudging, without lust, without vain boasting, without chattering, without any slur on any one of the Fianna.

Is it vain boasting which renders you anxious to proclaim to the world that we buy our buckets, our rakes, and our shovels from you?

There was no longer any disposition to expend time in vain boastings and rejoicings.

Both Antiochus had done wrong in trusting to the Aetolians, and the Aetolians in trusting to the king's vain boastings.