vaporous
adjective
having the form or characteristics of vapor.
vaporously
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a word derived from
vaporous.
Example Sentences
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In Malofeev’s subjugating hands, Janácek’s vaporously evocative “In the Mists” became “In the Thick, Disorienting and Blinding Fog” and led, without a pause, into Liszt’s doomed and drummed “Funérailles,” creating an extraordinary sonic vista.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2025
His musical signature was still in formation but is, by all accounts, vaporously evident in the sloppily scrawled bars of the quartet.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2022
There are some juicy new bits, not least the sinister moment when Epstein sneaks vaporously into the offices of the Daily Beast to threaten Brown over the publication of stories about him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2022
Opposite the leather sofa where I sat was a suite of works by the artist Dan Colen, pieces as vaporously ambiguous as a Rorschach test.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2021
She reappeared, glowing vaporously in her triumph, and spread out her arms before the pallid man in the hard felt hat.
From The Mountebank by William John Locke
