BOASTFULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boastfully mean? 

• BOASTFULLY (adverb)
  The adverb BOASTFULLY has 1 sense:

1. in a boastful manner

  Familiarity information: BOASTFULLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOASTFULLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a boastful manner

Synonyms:

big; boastfully; large; vauntingly

Context example:

he talked big all evening

Pertainym:

boastful (exhibiting self-importance)

 Context examples 

Such address and intelligence as I chance to possess, said Mr. Micawber, boastfully disparaging himself, with the old genteel air, will be devoted to my friend Heep's service.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And so it came to pass, that the bird, while out one day, met a fellow bird, to whom he boastfully expatiated on the excellence of his household arrangements.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And besides, it did not seem reasonable that he should be right—he who had stood, so short a time before, in that same living room, blushing and awkward, acknowledging his introduction, looking fearfully about him at the bric-a- brac his swinging shoulders threatened to break, asking how long since Swinburne died, and boastfully announcing that he had read Excelsior and the Psalm of Life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)