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Significados de self-praise en inglés

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Speaking of yourself in superlatives.

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Examples for "boast"
Examples for "boast"
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Salt-N-Pepa boast a friendship and working relationship that has spanned 30 years.
Ebony
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But it was a good performance. He allowed himself this small boast.
Strange Sweet Song
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Maria Theresa could hardly allow such a boast to pass without comment.
Wired
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It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
Pride and Prejudice
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That boast was at the very heart of their Project Fear campaign.
The Guardian
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Other topics best avoided include boasting about the kids, politics and religion.
Independent.ie
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Young forward Jonathan Freeman kicked four, with the Lions boasting 11 goalkickers.
The Guardian
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Then they spent the remainder of the year boasting of the achievement.
The Story of a Pioneer
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The creature was boasting, but Sharn-igon could believe the story easily enough.
Jem
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Despite boasting one of the best scoring margins in the nation, No.
Reuters
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Great restlessness and jactitation set in with the renewal of the circulation in the extremities.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
Uso de self-praise en inglés
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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...
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Could we go along forever living on the flubdub of self-praise?
Under the Skylights
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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...
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It is said that vain self-praise stinks in the nostrils.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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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...
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But her self-praise had in it nothing of joy, and her glory was very sad.
Phineas Finn / The Irish Member
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This bit of self-praise, of course, fitted excellently the laborious inanity of the whole conversation.
The Shadow Line: A Confession
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His undaunted manner of uttering self-praise caused the exchange editor to wink at the editorial writer.
Tales from Bohemia
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Mussolini and Hitler conducted similar symphonies of self-praise.
The God That Failed
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I don't like to indulge in self-praise, but I believe I know a thing or two.
Paul the Peddler; Or, The Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant
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I knew that one ought not to praise one's self and that self-praise was no recommendation.
Recollections of My Childhood and Youth
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My mother always said self-praise is no recommendation.
Ebony
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Have you got a sacred satisfaction of self-praise?
The Path of a Star
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There is no boasting, no self-consciousness, and not the faintest word of self-praise ever crosses their lips.
Heroes of the Goodwin Sands
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I had her letter, full of self-praise.
The Kingmaker’s Daughter
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Are you given to ostentation and self-praise?
The Way of Peace
Translations for self-praise
portugués
ostentamento
Self-praise a través del tiempo