Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Vaunting; swaggering; blustering; given to brag or bluster: as, vaporing talk; a vaporing debater.
- noun The act of bragging or blustering; ostentatious or windy talk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Talking idly; boasting; vaunting.
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- verb Present participle of
vapor .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an instance of boastful talk
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Examples
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Sometime that day he also found time to compose "Elegy for a Cove Full of Bones," a poem about his desire to escape "the vaporing coves of death."
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008
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Yeah, things like facts and evidence are so quaint and naive, particularly when juicy gossip and moral vaporing are so much more exciting.
Quote Of The Day 2009
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“When it is borne in mind that this boast finds its most frequent expression in the pages of those journals whose editors are men of education, in at least one instance men holding degrees conferred by Harvard University, it may be seen that the boast is not to be dismissed lightly as the ignorant vaporing of untrained minds.”
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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“When it is borne in mind that this boast finds its most frequent expression in the pages of those journals whose editors are men of education, in at least one instance men holding degrees conferred by Harvard University, it may be seen that the boast is not to be dismissed lightly as the ignorant vaporing of untrained minds.”
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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“When it is borne in mind that this boast finds its most frequent expression in the pages of those journals whose editors are men of education, in at least one instance men holding degrees conferred by Harvard University, it may be seen that the boast is not to be dismissed lightly as the ignorant vaporing of untrained minds.”
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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Hedda stealth umpire! scornfully vaporing severities
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I take it that the parallel move in our situation is to write the occasional op-ed piece about the harmony of science and religion while continuing to figure out how life actually evolved without paying any mind whatsoever to theological vaporing.
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The life that lies before us is, in some way, too, below us, like yon vast amplitude of plain; but it must be traversed foot by foot, and laboriously travailed, without the cloudy vaporing or the high-flown meditation.
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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One bright bolt scorched the ground nearby and skipped vaporing plasteel between Allin's legs.
In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984
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People who are always vaporing about their own importance, and the value of their own possessions, are disagreeable.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various
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