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vaporing

[vey-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

Alas, this harmless mental vaporing is now d�mod�!

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Yet to argue with worriers is of little use; convince them at every point, and the next moment they return to their old aggravating, vaporing credo.

From Maids Wives and Bachelors by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

Must not the vaporing Burgoyne, who, it is said, possesses great sensibility, be humbled to the dust?

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail