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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

Alone he faced the roystering Morton at Merrymount, unarming that vaporing rebel and putting his riotous colony upon its good behavior.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

The morning was hurrying by and this vaporing was a hindrance to be shuffled off.

From Rose MacLeod by Alice Brown

One might well excuse Walpole if he became sometimes a little impatient of the attitudinizing and the vaporing of the Patriots.

From A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by Justin McCarthy


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