English-French translations for boast

  • se vanterLa plupart d'entre nous n'a pas l'intention de se vanter des 3 millions d'euros. Most of us here would not wish to boast about EUR 3 million. Aucun autre - je répète, aucun autre - protagoniste de la scène internationale ne peut se vanter d’une aussi grande force d’attraction. No other and I repeat, no other player on the world stage can boast the same drawing power. Il n'y a cependant pas de quoi se vanter quand on voit l'augmentation du montant de cette aide. There is nothing, however, to boast about when you see the increase in the amount of this aid.
  • fanfaronnadeLoin de moi l'envie de verser dans la fanfaronnade, mais j'estime que mon rapport ne doit pas être réduit à cette question. I do not want to sound boastful, but my report should not be reduced to that issue. Mon deuxième point est que ce Parlement fait clairement preuve de fanfaronnade concernant les élections à venir. My second point is that, of course, this House is being noticeably boastful with regard to the forthcoming elections.
  • fanfaronner
  • vantardise
  • vanter
    Aucun homme ne peut tuer femmes et enfants et s'en sortir libre pour s'en vanter ensuite. No man kills women and children and lives to boast of it. La plupart d'entre nous n'a pas l'intention de se vanter des 3 millions d'euros. Most of us here would not wish to boast about EUR 3 million. Aucun autre - je répète, aucun autre - protagoniste de la scène internationale ne peut se vanter d’une aussi grande force d’attraction. No other and I repeat, no other player on the world stage can boast the same drawing power.

Definition of boast

  • A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself
  • A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall
  • To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself
  • To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol
  • To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult
  • To play a w:Squash_#Types_of_shots_played|boast shot
  • To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel
  • To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required

Examples

  • It was his regular boast that he could eat two full English breakfasts in one sitting.
  • The hotel boasts one of the best views of the sea
  • His family boasted a famous name

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