Modifying Another Word

• rather: He tells everyone in a rather boastful voice that flying is fun he is really enjoying the war.

• never: He was never boastful but had great football knowledge.

• so: But I was far too inhibited to be so boastful.

• very: It appears that a new apprentice of the village carpenter was very boastful of his scholarship.

• too: I won't tell you my score, that would be just too boastful, but here are what the results say about me.

• also: They were also boastful, proud and abusive according to 1 Timothy 1:7 and 6:4.

Modifies a noun

• man: Yet it must not be supposed that Jo Bumpus was a boastful man or a bully.

• word: Avoid these boastful words, lest your speech is reported elsewhere in the palace.

• spirit: But the greatest risk of all was the danger of a boastful spirit showing itself in the Free Church.

• arrogance: I do like to satisfy women out of a boastful arrogance.

• behavior: Instead, their boastful, arrogant behavior is tantamount to a nation spitting in its own face.

• age: I am not convinced that anyone should get this drug for free, even in this talkative and boastful age.

Used with adjective complement

• sound: And, without sounding boastful, I very nearly got it spot on.