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Boast vs. Ostentation — What's the Difference?

Boast vs. Ostentation — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Boast and Ostentation

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Boast

To talk or write about oneself or something related to oneself in a proud or self-admiring way.

Ostentation

Pretentious display meant to impress others; pretentious showiness.

Boast

To say (something about oneself) in a proud or self-admiring way.

Ostentation

(Archaic) The act or an instance of showing; an exhibition.

Boast

To have or possess (a desirable feature)
A mall that boasts 80 shops.
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Ostentation

Ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.

Boast

To shape or form (stone) roughly with a broad chisel.

Ostentation

(obsolete) A show or spectacle.

Boast

The act or an instance of boasting
Got tired of listening to his boasts.

Ostentation

The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; - usually in a detractive sense.
He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to ostentation.

Boast

A source of pride.

Ostentation

A show or spectacle.

Boast

A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.

Ostentation

A showy outward display

Boast

Something that one brags about.
It was his regular boast that he could eat two full English breakfasts in one sitting.

Ostentation

Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

Boast

(squash) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.

Ostentation

Pretentious or showy or vulgar display

Boast

(intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.

Boast

(transitive) To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.

Boast

(obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.

Boast

(squash) To play a boast shot.

Boast

(ergative) To possess something special (e.g. as a feature).
The hotel boasts one of the best views of the sea.
His family boasted a famous name.

Boast

To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth.
By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: . . not of works, lest any man should boast.

Boast

To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
In God we boast all the day long.

Boast

To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
Lest bad men should boastTheir specious deeds.

Boast

To display vaingloriously.

Boast

To possess or have; as, to boast a name.
Boast not thyself of to-morrow.

Boast

To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.

Boast

To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

Boast

Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
Reason and morals? and where live they most,In Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast!

Boast

The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, - sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.
The boast of historians.

Boast

Speaking of yourself in superlatives

Boast

Show off

Boast

Wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner;
She was sporting a new hat

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