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Boastly vs Beastly - What's the difference?

boastly | beastly |

As adverbs the difference between boastly and beastly

is that boastly is (rare|nonstandard) in a boastly or boastful manner; boastfully while beastly is like a beast; brutishly.

As an adjective beastly is

(uk) pertaining to, or having the form, nature or habits of, a beast.

boastly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • (rare, nonstandard) In a boastly or boastful manner; boastfully.
  • *1953 , A Bibliographical Study of William Blake's Note-Book - Page 43:
    • But a significant phenomenon observed throughout the whole is that these poems underwent copious deletions and emendations by the hand of Blake, who , ten years later, boastly told of his "long Poem ... on One Grand Theme, Similar to Hom,er's Illiad or Milton's Paradise Lost"; [...]
  • *1993 , Asim Maitra, Profile of a Little Known Tribe :
    • The Lisu have a fictious relationship with the tiger (heme) and boastly say that they are never attacked by a tiger.
  • *2011 , Jahangir Akash, Pain - Page 53 :
    • This council will immediately meet the parliamentary committe and say please bring this issue in the parliament and any how, you have two-third majority (you say day and night boastly , you can Stop the politics of Awami League!), reform the constitution and give tribals the recognition.

    Usage notes

    * Generally an error by non-native speakers.

    beastly

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (UK) Pertaining to, or having the form, nature or habits of, a beast.
  • (UK) Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy.
  • (UK, dated) Abominable.
    • beastly weather

    Usage notes

    Most often used pejoratively. is more narrow, though also often used pejoratively.

    Synonyms

    * (like a beast) bestial, animalian

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Like a beast; brutishly.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.8:
    • Beastly he threwe her downe, ne car'd to spill / Her garments gay with scales of fish that all did fill.
  • * 1901 , The Literary World - Volume 63 - Page 35:
    • They have insulted me most beastly . Moreover, they are, everyone of them, black-satan filthmen.