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vaingloriously

vaingloriously adverb: in a vainglorious manner.

Adverb

vaingloriously (comparative more vaingloriously, superlative most vaingloriously)

  1. In a vainglorious manner.
    • 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.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

Forms of vaingloriously

comparativemore vaingloriously
superlativemost vaingloriously

Origin of vaingloriously

From vainglorious + -ly.

Questions about vaingloriously

What does vaingloriously mean?
Vaingloriously means in a vainglorious manner.
What part of speech is vaingloriously?
Vaingloriously is an adverb.

Words near vaingloriously in the dictionary

  1. vainful
  2. vaingloried
  3. vainglories
  4. vaingloriness
  5. vainglorious
  6. vaingloriously
  7. vaingloriousness
  8. vainglory
  9. vainglorying
  10. vaingloryings
  11. Vainikkala

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