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# boastfully

«boastfully» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a boastful way: talking very proudly about yourself or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (boastfully)

### meaning for a pupil

In a boastful way: talking very proudly about yourself or what you have done, so others feel you are showing off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boastfully/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a character boastfully brags about his skill or plans, and the reader sees he is vain

### examples

- She boastfully told us she was the best swimmer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boastfully/#x1)
- He boastfully said he would win every race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boastfully/#x2)
- The bird boastfully talked about his home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boastfully/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [This shall they have for their pride, because they have taunted and spoken boastfully against the people of the LORD of hosts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEP.28/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «boastfully» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boastfully/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.