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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

They became very insolent and boastful, and would sharpen their knives and tomahawks upon the door-sills of the colonists, vaporing in mysterious phrase of the great deeds they were about to perform.

From King Philip Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

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

From Septimus by Locke, William John




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