(a.) Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Abaaoud, the man thought to be a key planner for the group behind the Paris attacks, boasted to a niece that he had brought around 90 militants back to Europe with him.
(2) If that's something to boast about, then living off inherited wealth must be something to be ashamed of.
(3) Grillo boasted it had achieved its prominence in the space of little more than three years, "with no money and no [state] funding."
(4) We fought back and we won,” she said, boasting that the CFPB had already recouped $4bn for ordinary people from major financial institutions.
(5) He boasts that his time as America's ambassador to China shows more experience in vital foreign policy than any other candidate.
(6) Compare her with Megan Draper, who is in a minidress too, but one that is several inches shorter and boasts the swirling lava-lamp prints that may have been seen in Vogue at the time.
(7) 'No social housing' boasts luxury London flat advert for foreign investors Read more Only by rebalancing housing provision can we avoid another bursting property bubble.
(8) You get like three days where you have to show up?” But the younger rival managed to turn difficult questions into an opportunity to boast of his humble background and promise of change.
(9) For real will-this-do illustrating, look no further than conjoined twins Tip and Tap , although they admittedly boast a certain erstaz charm not seen post- Pique (the much-maligned Goleo VI and Pille the Erudite Ball apart).
(10) Among the secret papers about their abduction that were discovered during the Libyan revolution was a signed letter from the then head of counter-terrorism at MI6, Mark Allen , in which he boasted of his agency's role in one of the operations.
(11) A friend heard the butcher boast five shillings that he would be let off again by the tribunal, for the sixth time.
(12) The museum is also planning a "new major exhibition" in Manchester and boasts of leading a global network of more than 1,600 cultural and educational organisations for the commemorations, due to run until 2018.
(13) So it’s comforting to note that Spectre seems to be offering a significant upgrade: the trailer shows Q introducing Bond to his new ultra-speedy Aston Martin DB10, and promising it boasts a “few tricks”.
(14) He will not be easily replaced, but Ogletree is the top inside linebacker in this year's draft, boasting greater range and athleticism than the more talked-about Manti Te'o.
(15) This term, the nursery school boasts eight nationalities.
(16) The rightwing extremist who confessed to the mass killings in Norway boasted in court on Monday that there were two more cells from his terror network still at large, prompting an international investigation for collaborators.
(17) The men and women between them can now boast four medals at this Games, surpassing their targets (they had hoped for one or two), not to mention the British women's best placing in 84 years in the team final.
(18) But her departure is also likely to mark the end of a period when the last cabinet secretary, Gus (now Lord) O'Donnell, could make his favourite boast that under his watch half the people in charge of government departments were women.
(19) Speaking in Queensland earlier this month , Abbott boasted that “any other government, I suspect, would quickly succumb to the cries of the human rights lawyers”.
(20) And the presence of actively engaged men was another sign of what seems to have been new and transformative this year – which is key, because changing the world for women means changing what is acceptable and admirable among men, where misogynist behaviour has long been, in some circles, something to boast about.
Vainglorious
Definition:
(a.) Feeling or indicating vainglory; elated by vanity; boastful.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is an excruciating fly-on-the-wall witness to Allison's vainglory, Swales's self-regard for his own leadership qualities and the poor young players' overpromoted helplessness.
(2) Abbott’s few remaining apologists in the domestic media have vaingloriously announced today that our prime minister is putting the mighty US “on notice” about tax evasion.
(3) Alas for them, the gadget doesn’t let them know that all of their vainglorious conversations are already being recorded by said Old Bill.
(4) Ferguson strove to unsettle City beforehand with a calculated outburst over the allegedly vainglorious streak in the people who run City but earlier still in the week he had suggested circumspectly that these opponents are bound to win a trophy in due course.
(5) The issue is the new Scottish Labour leader, Jim Murphy, and his vainglorious boast that he is going to use mansion tax money from London and the south -east to pay for 1,000 new nurses in Scotland .
(6) The Tennyson line chosen for the heart of the Olympic Village – "To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield" – is, in the context of his poem Ulysses, hardly a feelgood slogan: it's the empty boast of a vainglorious old fart raging against senility.
(7) The medics in Planet are more misguided than vainglorious, but even in that film, we're rooting for the apes.
(8) The project had been conceived long before the crash, and in more prosperous times, might have stood as a monument to vainglorious individuality.
(9) Even defectors describe him as a skilful politician with the foresight to understand that nuclear diplomacy is a marathon, not a sprint.But the rapid rise of his youngest son, about whom the world knew practically nothing until his first official appearance with his father in 2010, has produced a vainglorious leader who, says Kim Kwang-jin, is "running too fast and doesn't know how to slow down".
(10) We all think our kids are wonderful, obviously, and the occasional thrill of vainglorious pride we feel at their achievements spills out in a humblebrag or a boastful status update to our bored acquaintances.
(11) "What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word.
(12) It wasn’t lost because of a vainglorious Edstone [a reference to Miliband’s 8ft 6in stone on which were carved Labour’s six pledges] or a bacon sandwich.
(13) But now Saddam's vainglorious stronghold is to be turned over to a different use.
(14) Earlier in the 1960s, he had played a part in the civil war in North Yemen, the cockpit of Gamal Abdul Nasser's vainglorious attempt to impose Egyptian hegemony over the Arabian peninsula.
(15) I fired off a tweet, saying he was "despotic and deluded", something borne out by such a vainglorious statement.
(16) His “Kimpire”, as he once vaingloriously called it, has been rebuilt through targeting the failures of the police, prosecutors and spies who so willingly helped the FBI.
(17) There was no rebuttal from Labour pointing out the decent levels of growth being recorded before George Osborne choked off the recovery through his vainglorious emergency budget in June 2010 .
(18) This quixotic goal had been set a decade earlier at a United Nations general assembly special session when, under the vainglorious slogan “We can do it”, the supranational body pledged that, by 2008, the world would be “drug free”.
(19) What vainglorious egotism, this willingness to kill a party for the thing he loves.
(20) The nation's modest bank manager doesn't do the hubris, hyperbole and vainglory of his predecessor, but he allowed himself a quiet preen.