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boastfully

/bohst-fuhl/US // ˈboʊst fəl //UK // (ˈbəʊstfʊl) //

夸夸其谈,夸夸其谈地,浮夸地,夸张地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : given to or characterized by boasting.

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Examples

  • Turning to Micklin he said boastfully "I'll bet you a hundred dollars you ——s won't hold that meeting tomorrow!"

  • “I flatter myself I could, too,” said Dunn, but not boastfully.

  • You just let me manage this, Rowena had declared boastfully.

  • "Well, when he saw that you were Dacotahs he was frightened," Little Raven said, boastfully.

  • Subsequently we learned that the raiders were Texans who boastfully declared that they asked no quarter and gave none.