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  • noun Plural form of boasting.

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Examples

  • Surely your readers by this time have learned to properly estimate the empty assurances and vain boastings of the Northern Government and press in relation to the suppression of the rebellion.

    The Confederate States of America 1862

  • And as he, too, rose to his feet, an unconscious smile came to his lips as he recalled the boastings of Bateese.

    The Flaming Forest James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • Therefore the whole chain of his boastings which is conducted through the work falls to the ground.

    The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

  • Mrs. Mortimer noted her sparkling glances which took in everything, and went out of her way to show Saxon around, doing it under the guise of gleeful boastings, stating the costs of the different materials, explaining how she had done things with her own hands, such as staining the doors, weathering the bookcases, and putting together the big Mission Morris chair.

    CHAPTER III 2010

  • Do we really need to be subjected to the boastings of people that actually think we're impressed that they're at a certain restaurant or club?

    Mike Gellman: Who Gives a F*** Where You Are Mike Gellman 2010

  • Do we really need to be subjected to the boastings of people that actually think we're impressed that they're at a certain restaurant or club?

    Mike Gellman: Who Gives a F*** Where You Are Mike Gellman 2010

  • Do we really need to be subjected to the boastings of people that actually think we're impressed that they're at a certain restaurant or club?

    Mike Gellman: Who Gives a F*** Where You Are Mike Gellman 2010

  • Do we really need to be subjected to the boastings of people that actually think we're impressed that they're at a certain restaurant or club?

    Mike Gellman: Who Gives a F*** Where You Are Mike Gellman 2010

  • Do we really need to be subjected to the boastings of people that actually think we're impressed that they're at a certain restaurant or club?

    Mike Gellman: Who Gives a F*** Where You Are Mike Gellman 2010

  • "Even so," said the Sorcerer softly, "you are glad to have both my old age and my wonder in reserve, since in twenty thousand years we have shown ourselves unable to defeat the soft ones, despite all our preparations and boastings."

    A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

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