Usage examples (37)

• But I was far too inhibited to be so boastful.
• His defense attorney says investigators had no evidence that the suspect meant to act on what he calls boastful chatter.
• Its constructor did not overrate the benefit he had conferred when he wrote in an inscription which can scarcely be called boastful:
• That gave, or could have given the impression, or could have caused the danger of creating a certain kind of boastful attitude, creating