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  • present participle of vapor.
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vaporing

[vey-per-ing] / ˈveɪ pər ɪŋ /
NOUN
delusions of grandeur
Synonyms
WEAK
airs pretensions swank vain pretensions

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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

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

From Septimus by Locke, William John

But, as I have before shown, he was not a man to vent his spleen in idle vaporing.

From Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Irving, Washington

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