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

Who does not know how Drake, warping his ships out of Plymouth Harbour, attacked the haughty Dons, hanging on their rear as they sailed vauntingly on, harassing, capturing, and destroying them?

From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by William Henry Giles Kingston

Ah!' said Captain Cuttle, vauntingly, 'as much as if he'd gone and knocked his head again a door!'

From Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

And where is that band 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 America First Patriotic Readings by Jasper Leonidas McBrien

That which vauntingly styles itself the écriture artiste must reap its reward promptly in praise from the précieuses ridicules of the hour.

From Inquiries and Opinions by Brander Matthews