Boasting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BOASTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• (of a person, place, or thing) possess (a feature that is a source of pride)
• talk with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities
NOUN:
• the act of boasting
• an act of talking with excessive pride and self-satisfaction
• (in squash) a stroke in which the ball is made to hit one of the side walls before hitting the front wall.
• The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display.
• speaking of yourself in superlatives
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to brag

Words related to BOASTING

boast7 boasted10 boasts8

Words that contain BOASTING

boastings12 boastingly16 outboasting14

How to use BOASTING in a sentence

• For as all things which I preached unto you are true, even so is our boasting, that I boasted myself to Titus with all, found true.
• But, upon the credulity of ignorance, his high-sounding certificates and unbounded boasting can impose any thing.
• He became at the supper table a creature of gnawing and baffled curiosity which he must hide by boasting an intimate acquaintance with Whipple motives and intentions.
• So, whether or not I did these things, I shall always retain, in this world and in the next, the credit for them, without any need to resort to distasteful boasting.
• We are content to condemn in ignorance, boasting that we are too good to understand.
• We were in no mood for boasting of the success of our excursion, and our answers were short to inquiries as to how we had passed the day.
• This was not boasting, but simply to show them his love for the interests of Monastery University and church.
• I heard an overseer boasting to this same master that he gave one of the boys seventy lashes, for not doing a job of work just as he thought it ought to be done.
• I think I may say, without boasting unreasonably of my own good sense, that I have kept myself altogether aloof from the vortex of parties, from boyhood to the present hour.
• Likewise do I hear boasting of your valor, that no bolder king hath ever been seen.
• As you remarked a while ago, I know several European languages, and if you will forgive what sounds like boasting, I may say that I have a gift for picking up tongues.
• Like all men of low moral status they were secretly superstitious, and these boasting words crept unpleasantly under their skins.
• I liked the way in which he told of his adventures, with a little frank boasting, enough to season but not to spoil the story.
• It was an old English family, tracing its ancestry back to the days of William the Conqueror, and boasting of two or three titles and a coat-of-arms.
• Within twenty years, the territory, boasting a population of 150,000, asked for admission to the union.
• In the revolution of July Dumas acted bravely, and has himself told the story of his conduct with not a little boasting.
• I am eager in spirit, With the winged war-hero to away with all boasting.
• The two together, killed a duck, and the boy was boasting of it in the presence of the greatest man the world ever produced.
• Few of the men were given to boasting of the valour they would display in warfare or of their abilities in marksmanship.
• And that he was not boasting now was plainly evident, both to her and Kelton.
• Our elections are a disgrace to our civilisation, and to that common-sense of which we are for ever boasting that we possess so large a share.
• There was nearly, though not quite, as much boasting on the part of our own press and people.
• He thought himself a most powerful and agile man, boasting often that he still kept the vigour of his youth.
• Be easy, you have a good friend beside you, and without boasting, a woman as will nurse you like a mother nurses her first child.
• He talked to him continually, boasting about him, and together they reached the fence, which he threw down in all haste.
• There is an almost entire absence of boasting or lying, and very little complaining.
• The admixture of Biblical references and German boasting are typical of the lessons taught at German Sunday Schools, which play a great role in war propaganda.

Similar words containing BOAST without suffix ing

boast7 boasts8 boasted10 boaster9 boasters10 boastful13 outboast10 boastings12 boastless11 outboasts11 boastfully18 boastingly16 outboasted13 unboastful15 outboasting14 boastfulness17 boastfulnesses19

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. We do not cooperate with the owners of this trademark. All trademark rights are owned by their owners and are not relevant to the web site "scrabble-word.com". This site is intended for entertainment and training. We try to make a useful tool for all fans of SCRABBLE. "Scrabble Word" is the best method to improve your skills in the game.