ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Boastly

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Boastly is an adverb meaning (rare, nonstandard) In a boastful manner; boastfully, boastingly.

Meaning

(rare, nonstandard) In a boastful manner; boastfully, boastingly.

Example Sentences

The Lisu have a fictious^([sic]) relationship with the tiger (heme) and boastly say that they are never attacked by a tiger.
But a significant phenomenon observed throughout the whole is that these poems underwent copious deletions and emendations by the hand of Blake, who, ten years later, boastly told of his "long Poem ... on One Grand Theme, Similar to Homer's Illiad^([sic]) or Milton's Paradise Lost"; […]
This council will immediately meet the parliamentary committe^([sic]) and say please bring this issue in the parliament and any how, you have two-third majority (you say day and night boastly, you can Stop the politics of Awami League!), reform the constitution and give tribals the recognition.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include boastfully, braggingly, gloatily, braggishly, posturingly, vauntingly.

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