vaporing

[vey-per-ing] / ˈveɪ pər ɪŋ /

NOUN

delusions of grandeur

Synonyms

WEAK

airs pretensions swank vain pretensions

Example Sentences

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The press was busy vaporing upon the significance of a de Valera free to roam the Free State.

From Time Magazine Archive

Alas, this harmless mental vaporing is now d�mod�!

From Time Magazine Archive

Apparently the only contribution Fiver could make was this beetle-spirited vaporing.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

She saw herself as the most useless, vaporing and purblind of mortals.

From Septimus by Locke, William John

A plague upon your idle vaporing, You vagabond!—D’ye fancy we don’t know you?

From The Comedies of Terence by Colman, George