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boast
  1. A brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself.
  2. (squash) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
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    1. “Perhaps the best summary of Pericles' attitude towards justice is his famous boast about the trail left by Athenian imperialism, his boast that Athens has everywhere established everlasting memorials of deeds bad and good.”
      “The quay of Yarmouth is justly the boast of the town, and is one of the finest and the most extensive in Europe.”
boaster
  1. One who boasts; a braggart.
  2. A stonemason's broad-faced chisel.
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    1. “But the braggart boaster cried that an old Nobodaddy was in his cups it was muchwhat indifferent and he would not lag behind his lead.”
      “Henry Fleming, the youth who is the protagonist of this thrillingly realistic drama of war, has for deuteragonist Wilson, the loud young boaster.”
      “Millet, recording her own experience, is an exhibitionist and a boaster and, unfortunately, not much of a writer.”
boastfulness
  1. The characteristic of being boastful.
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    1. “They must choose between a brash boastfulness and a considered confidence that speaks to the convictions of people everywhere.”
      “It secured him, instantly, a reputation for boastfulness which was then at odds with his limited achievements.”
      “Did you know, that in the Victorian language of flowers, hydrangeas stood for boastfulness and heartlessness?”
boasting
boastance
  1. (obsolete) boasting
boastfulnesses
boastings
  1. plural of boasting
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    1. “I warned you at Damietta what would be the end of all the boastings which were uttered hourly.”
      “But I have a number of friends who are natives of Zenia, and they fret me with their boastings.”
      “At various points, the young Bush gamely laughs along at Trump's gross boastings.”
boasters
  1. plural of boaster
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    1. “He rather enjoyed it when things were good, but he'd just made himself a target for those people who weren't kindly inclined to boasters.”
      “Accordingly, boasters of beauty are obliged to disown its voodoo to continue to reap its benefits, like Mendes and Dawson.”
      “My last story of boasters and foolish acts has just happened yesterday.”
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