Voorbeelden van boastful

• As he drank he grew boastful. 

• He referred in this irreverent and boastful speech to his grandmother, the regent. 

• Luck, misleading and alluring, favored Jack for a while, transforming him until he was radiant, boastful, exultant. 

• The note referred in boastful language to the victorious German armies. 

• When they come back they was boastful. 

• Their profiles are for the most part their self-representations, and it is clear that they make boastful claims about their prowess as warriors on behalf of their communities.

• I do not want to sound boastful, but my report should not be reduced to that issue.

• There is nothing personally boastful about that statement, because it is in the nature of the case.

• I do not say that in any boastful spirit.

• It is not unduly boastful to say that.

• I know that it is boastful for me to say so.

• From a national point of view we generally are not a boastful people.

• We know that they have traditionally been proud—boastful even—to be the high-tax, high-spending, high-borrowing and high-inflation party.

• We have in the past, unfortunately, been very boastful of controlling the world and even the ocean.

• I do not say this in any boastful way, but merely to show how much could be done with a little encouragement and help.

• It will be seen as a tired and enfeebled colossus, a continent filled with boastful babble, fragile and old, nothing more than a historical museum.

• It would be boastful to suggest that we had it perfectly right.

• He faced death, not with a boastful gaiety, but with a confident gaiety.

• Without being unduly boastful, that is not a bad record for two years.

• The same boastful, arrogant and ignorant assertions are being made.