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boastly

boastly adverb: in a boastful manner; boastfully, boastingly.

Adverb

boastly (comparative more boastly, superlative most boastly)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) In a boastful manner; boastfully, boastingly.
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of boastly

comparativemore boastly
superlativemost boastly

Origin of boastly

From boast + -ly.

Questions about boastly

What does boastly mean?
Boastly means in a boastful manner; boastfully, boastingly.
What part of speech is boastly?
Boastly is an adverb.

Words near boastly in the dictionary

  1. boasting
  2. boastingly
  3. boastings
  4. boastive
  5. boastless
  6. boastly
  7. boasts
  8. boastsome
  9. boastworthy
  10. boasty
  11. boat

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