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  • present participle of vapor.
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vaporing

[vay-per-ing] / ˈveɪ pər ɪŋ /
NOUN
delusions of grandeur
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The press was busy vaporing upon the significance of a de Valera free to roam the Free State.

From Time Magazine Archive

Apparently the only contribution Fiver could make was this beetle-spirited vaporing.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

I appear to be vaporing in a spirit of vainglory; and yet it is under the mere coercion of 'salva necessitas' that I am surprised into this unparalleled instance of activity.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various

"Gifford was brought up in a bad school—a vaporing fellow, not true to any of his obligations," said Mr. Oliver Smith.

From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Holme Lee

She saw herself as the most useless, vaporing and purblind of mortals.

From Septimus by William John Locke


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