boastly

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adverb

In a boastful manner; boastfully, boastingly.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adverbboastly (comparative more boastly, superlative most boastly)

comparative more boastly · superlative most boastly

  1. nonstandardrareIn a boastful manner; boastfully, boastingly.

    The Lisu have a fictious^([sic]) relationship with the tiger (heme) and boastly say that they are never attacked by a tiger.

    1993, Asim Maitra, Profile of a Little-known Tribe
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    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"; […]

    1953, A Bibliographical Study of William Blake's Note-Book, page 43

    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.

    2011, Jahangir Akash, Pain - Page 53

Origin

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APA

boastly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boastly

MLA

“boastly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boastly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boastly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boastly.

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