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

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

I am entirely of your opinion," answered Oswald; "Metastasio, who is vauntingly called the poet of love, gives the same colouring to this passion in every country and under every circumstance.

From Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy by Greig, R. S.

Nor felt his naked bosom, to the force Of the third weapon vauntingly expos'd, Aught harm'd.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

“You will never find me less so when you vauntingly exhibit such mournful blemishes of character.”

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans

A lance, which the Spaniards vauntingly said was for bleeding the English.

From City Scenes or a peep into London by Darton, William