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  • present participle of vapor.
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vaporing

[vay-per-ing] / ˈveɪ pər ɪŋ /
NOUN
delusions of grandeur
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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

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

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

His teachings were but vaporing talk to her small mind and to those of many of the people.

From Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris

There is just as much empty vaporing there as there is down the Boulevards.

From A Girl of the Commune by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

We have a right to reject with pity or with scorn the stammerings of incompetence, the babble of lunacy, or the vaporing of imposture.

From Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects by Kenyon Cox




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