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."

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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 Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader by John L. Hülshof

"Oh, never a bit," says he, gaily, or at any rate with a way as if to carry it off vauntingly.

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro

Had Irma vauntingly told the king that he was a rejected suitor for her hand? and was he now to receive the alms of sympathy?

From On the Heights A Novel by Berthold Auerbach

The two men gazed thoughtfully into the little flame which vauntingly struggled to rear itself in the dense atmosphere.

From The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies by Ridgwell Cullum

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