vauntingly
IPA: vˈɔntɪŋɫi
adverb
- So as to vaunt; with boastful display.
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Examples of "vauntingly" in Sentences
- Jonas could look at his company now, and vauntingly too.
- Pronounce: haughty; vauntingly; pollution; hireling; desolation.
- Grant, vauntingly; "so I don't think he's told anything like that."
- And, with a lofty demeanor, thus vauntingly spake to the Captain: 770
- "Oh, never a bit," says he, gaily, or at any rate with a way as if to carry it off vauntingly.
- He comes, too, vauntingly up to us, with his contempt for us and all critics that ever were, or will be; we are all little
- Lagos, now made some grandiose and rhapsodical war speeches and spoke vauntingly of the deeds that he and his warriors meant to perform, while every now and then the younger bloods, eager to flesh their spears, burst out with:
- Wylder; but the Wylder coat in the centre, with the grinning griffins for supporters, and flaunting scrolls all round, and the ominous word ‘resurgam’ underneath, proclaimed itself sadly and vauntingly over the great entrance.
- MacLachlan, a most extraordinarily vain and pompous little fellow, put his bonnet suddenly on his head, scragged it down vauntingly on one side over the right eye, and stared at John Splendid with a good deal of choler or hurt vanity.
- I could hardly have supposed that sixteen or seventeen years could have produced such an alteration for the worse in the morals of a place — yes, I say morals; for observance of forms, and avoiding of practices, indifferent in themselves, often supply the place of that regular attention to duties which are so natural, that they seldom are vauntingly exercised, though they are worth all the precepts of the law and the prophets.