Definition of boasts

"boasts" in the noun sense

1. boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation

speaking of yourself in superlatives

"boasts" in the verb sense

1. boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade

show off

2. sport, feature, boast

wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner

"she was sporting a new hat"

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Quotations for boasts

The world boasts that it can render men happy! [ Massillon ]

He that boasts of himself affronts his company. [ Proverb ]

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another. [ Seneca ]

He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance. [ Proverb ]

Would you know the qualities a man lacks, examine those of which he boasts. [ Segur ]

He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own. [ Charron ]

He who boasts of his lineage boasts of that which does not properly belong to him. [ Seneca ]

With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth. [ Madden ]

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends, has never had one. [ Coleridge ]

He that boasts of his ancestors, the founders and raisers of a family, doth confess that he hath less virtue. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it. [ George Henry Lewes ]

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes be wears, or what culture he boasts. [ Chapin ]

I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns! the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate. [ Percival ]

This century boasts of progress! Have they invented a new mortal sin? Unfortunately there are but seven, as before - the number of the daily falls of a saint, which is very little. [ T. Gautier ]

He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom. [ Spurgeon ]

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of. [ Pascal ]

As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

I will not much commend others to themselves, I will not at all commend myself to others. So to praise any to their faces is a kind of flattery, but to praise myself to any is the height of folly. He that boasts his own praises speaks ill of himself, and much derogates from his true deserts. It is worthy of blame to affect commendation. [ Arthur Warwick ]

boasts in Scrabble®

The word boasts is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters boasts:

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boasts in Words With Friends™

The word boasts is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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Words within the letters of boasts

2 letter words in boasts (7 words)

3 letter words in boasts (9 words)

4 letter words in boasts (12 words)

5 letter words in boasts (3 words)

6 letter words in boasts (1 word)

Words containing the sequence boasts

Words that start with boasts (1 word)

Words with boasts in them (1 word)

Words that end with boasts (3 words)

Word Growth involving boasts

Shorter words in boasts

as boas boast

boa boas boast

Longer words containing boasts

outboasts

reboasts