vaingloriously

English

Etymology

vainglorious +‎ -ly

Adverb

vaingloriously (comparative more vaingloriously, superlative most vaingloriously)

  1. In a vainglorious manner.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
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