boastfulness
- n outspoken conceit
- Hambali added, with a touch of boastfulness, that he alone decided what to do with the $130,000 he received through June of this year.
- There was, without boastfulness, a sense of a challenge met and of completion.
- A psychologist's report, written when Chessman was 18, noted that his "boastfulness is a compensation for underlying feelings of insecurity and inadequacy.