boastfully

  • 81talk big — Australian Slang speak boastfully …

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  • 82big — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. large, bulky, huge; mountainous, enormous; massive, impressive; important, weighty. See greatness, size. Ant., small. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Of Great size] Syn. large, huge, great; see high 1 ,… …

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  • 83boasting — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Bragging speech Nouns 1. boasting, boast, vaunt[ing], puff, fanfaronade, bluster, gasconade, braggadocio, bravado, swagger, exultation, jactation; gloating, exultation; buncombe (See absurdity); bounce… …

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  • 84egotistically — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. vainly, conceitedly, self importantly, boastfully, arrogantly, haughtily, with a flourish of trumpets, ostentatiously, pretentiously, airily, loftily, selfishly; see also arrogantly …

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  • 85humbly — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. meekly, submissively, abjectly, simply, poorly, ingloriously, obscurely, on bended knee, apologetically. Ant. haughtily, proudly*, boastfully …

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  • 86modestly — (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [In a modest manner] Syn. humbly, unobtrusively, retiringly, quietly, simply, unpretentiously, unpresumptuously, diffidently, bashfully, unassumingly, chastely, virtuously, purely, shyly, demurely, shrinkingly. Ant. boldly* …

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  • 87pompously — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. pretentiously, conceitedly, boastfully, snobbishly, imperiously, insolently, autocratically, disdainfully, magisterially, overbearingly, proudly, ostentatiously, bombastically, theatrically, spectacularly, flamboyantly,… …

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  • 88proudly — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. boastfully, haughtily, insolently, contemptuously, like a lord; see also arrogantly …

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  • 89self-righteously — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. smugly, pompously, boastfully; see proudly …

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  • 90self-styled — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. soi disant (French), immodestly called, boastfully called, so called, would be, said to be, by one s own admission; see also egotistic 1 , 2 , egotistically …

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