half-boastingly

Updated: June 10, 2025

"Long ago, while he was yet in his first term at the university and used to go off on a spree sometimes, before he had made the acquaintance of Werner and before he had entered the organization, he used then to call himself half-boastingly, half-pityingly, "Vaska Kashirin," and now for some reason or other he suddenly felt like calling himself by the same name again.

Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev - The Seven Who Were Hanged