Word Meanings - BOASTINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Boastfully; with boasting. "He boastingly tells you." Burke.

BOASTFUL
Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
BOASTER
One who boasts; a braggart.
BOAST
bausen, bauschen, to swell, pusten, Dan. puste, Sw. pusta, to blow, Sw. pösa to swell; or W. bostio to boast, bost boast, Gael. bosd. But 1. To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of
BOASTING
The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young.
BOASTANCE
Boasting. Chaucer.
BOASTIVE
Presumptuous.
BOASTINGLY
Boastfully; with boasting. "He boastingly tells you." Burke.
BOASTLESS
Without boasting or ostentation.
BURKE
1. To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection. 2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary