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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

In later days the author threw what he probably supposed was the only existing manuscript of this vaporing effusion into the fire.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane

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

The little man, with all his vaporing, his windy boasts, his general utter worthlessness, had at bottom a grain of something genuine which keen Ike Byloe lacked.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various




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