Definition of Boasting

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Definition of Boasting
	Boasting of Boast The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. Related Definitions: Act, Boast, Display, Glorying, Of, Or, Ostentatious, Speaking, The, Vainglorious, Vaunting

Boasting Quotations

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
Gertrude Stein

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Sydney J. Harris

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
King Hussein

There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught.
Nathaniel Smith

The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.
Douglas Dunn

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
Owen D. Young

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.
John Zimmerman

We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.
Stephanie Herseth

Boasting Translations

boasting in French is vantant
boasting in German is prahlend, aufschneidend
boasting in Latin is iactantia

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