boastful

A bit later, when Jackie Kennedy made her way to a sofa, Nikita Khrushchev sat down beside the first lady and treated her to a barrage of jokes and boastful stories.

Messages to Jo two days later show him appearing boastful: "Just excluded my first kid", adding that one pupil had shouted in class that Foden "had been in trouble for touching kids".

But then the bravado behind those boastful campaign pledges lost steam this month.

But at times he sounds boastful, observing that “people trust me, I have never failed”, and insisting his work was “not a serious crime in Vietnam”.

In my family you were not allowed to be immodest or boastful.