vauntingly

American  

[vawnt-ing-lee] / ˈvɔnt ɪŋ li /

adverb

1. in a vaunting manner; boastfully.

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Explanation

When you talk vauntingly, you do it in a boastful or bragging way. College applicants might feel like they have to vauntingly explain their extracurricular activities in order to be accepted by their dream schools. If you can't help showing off how good your grades are, you might talk vauntingly about your latest report card. Politicians running for office almost always describe their experience vauntingly, unless of course they are haunted by scandals. Vauntingly comes from the verb vaunt, "boast or praise excessively," with its Latin root vanare, "to utter empty words," from vanus, "idle or empty."

Example Sentences

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vauntingly

Such vindictiveness boded ill: Isabella’s avarice and haughtiness, vauntingly apparent during her brief subsequent reign as Mortimer’s consort, strengthened the chroniclers in their fierce mistrust of powerful women.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2011

And where are the foes who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war, and the battle's confusion, A home and a country should leave us no more?

From Elsie at Viamede by Finley, Martha

“Before sunrise,” returned Sir Gideon, “and the winsome laird o’ Harden shall boast less vauntingly, and rue that he had broke his jeers upon an auld man.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by Wilson, John Mackay

This and more did the Sioux chief vauntingly declaim, brandishing his war club and addressing the four points of the compass, also the sun, as he shouted out his defiance.

From Lords of the North by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

This, I set down not vauntingly, but fully realizing what I owe to Heaven.

From Lords of the North by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)