adjective
definition
Tending to boast or brag.
example
He wrote a boastful autobiography, recording all his great deeds.
Examples of boastful in a Sentence
You would also be proud, perhaps even boastful, of that trait.
Versatile, lighthearted, boastful and pleasure-loving, he contrasts with the nobler and more intellectual character of Averroes.
He was never boastful but had great football knowledge.
I won't tell you my score, that would be just too boastful, but here are what the results say about me.
But I was far too inhibited to be so boastful.
I'm not having these boastful drunkards repairing my car.
It appears that a new apprentice of the village carpenter was very boastful of his scholarship.
He had retained all the habits of a country gentleman of his native Beam, careless, familiar, boastful, thrifty, cunning, combined since his sojourn at the court of the Valois with a taint of corruption.
He tells everyone in a rather boastful voice that flying is fun he is really enjoying the war.
And, without sounding boastful, I very nearly got it spot on.
In 1513 Dr West, an envoy of Henry VIII., found James in the state of " a fey man," doomed, distracted, agitated and boastful.
Besides Themison, its systematic founder, the school boasted many physicians eminent in their day, among whom Thessalus of Tralles, a halfeducated and boastful pretender, was one of the most popular.
This aspect helps shed light on why Aries is, at times, boastful and even aggressive.
The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.
The trade union bureaucrats can permit themselves such boastful formulas only because they are not immediately threatened by fascism, or by Communism.
The tonality is confident not boastful, intelligent but not parental, playful and in plain English.
Among less important, but still conspicuous, figures may be mentioned Kay (the Kai of the Mabinogion), Arthur's foster-brother and sensechal, the type of the bluff and boastful warrior, and Bedivere (Bedwyr), the type of brave knight and faithful retainer, who alone is with Arthur at his passing, and afterwards becomes " a hermit and a holy man."
In the literature and drama of his country, the Andalusian is traditionally represented as the Gascon of Spain, ever boastful and mercurial; or else as a picaresque hero, bull-fighter, brigand or smuggler.
Meanwhile a headless statue of a king named Khyan, found at Bubastis, was attributed on various grounds to the Hyksos, the soundest arguments being his foreign name and the boastful un-Egyptian epithet "beloved of his ka," where "beloved of Ptah" or some other god was to be expected.
It was in this .connexion that General Gordon assumed the command of the Chinese force, which under his direction gave a reality to the boastful title of "ever-victorious army" it had assumed under the two American adventurers Ward and Burgevine.
Nintendogs owners are as boastful and attached to their pets as real dog owners.
Great, however, as the success of the Roman arms had been, it was not such as to justify this boastful inscription; we read of renewed attacks from the barbarians, and plans of a fourth campaign for the next summer.
They are a sensitive, proud, if vindictive, and boastful people, with good conversational and reasoning powers, much sense of humour, tact and perception of character.