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

But I forget myself, for I must to the wedding, Both vauntingly and flauntingly, although I had no bidding.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by Hazlitt, William Carew

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 Matthews, Brander

For a minute it hung there like a mortal thing, having eyes to see down into the white-hot pit—fearing something there that this grim-hell clasped to its red breast, vauntingly and gloatingly.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

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