英语词汇“vauntingly”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adv

When you talk vauntingly, you do it in a boastful or bragging way. College applicants might feel like they have to vauntingly explain their extracurricular activities in order to be accepted by their dream schools.

If you can't help showing off how good your grades are, you might talk vauntingly about your latest report card. Politicians running for office almost always describe their experience vauntingly, unless of course they are haunted by scandals. Vauntingly comes from the verb vaunt, "boast or praise excessively," with its Latin root vanare, "to utter empty words," from vanus, "idle or empty."

WORD FAMILY

vauntingly

USAGE EXAMPLES

A lance, which the Spaniards vauntingly said was for bleeding the English.

Darton, William, City Scenes—or a peep into London(2012)

In the column it will be noticed that Rameses vauntingly asserts that his conquests were co-extensive with his desires.

King, James, Cleopatra's Needle—A History of the...(2011)

He would go to some bigger boy with a tale that Dicky had spoken vauntingly of fighting him and beating him hollow, with one hand.

Morrison, Arthur, A Child of the Jago(2011)

adv in a boastful manner

Syn

big, boastfully, large

单词	vauntingly
释义	vauntingly (once / 97681 pages) adv When you talk vauntingly, you do it in a boastful or bragging way. College applicants might feel like they have to vauntingly explain their extracurricular activities in order to be accepted by their dream schools. If you can't help showing off how good your grades are, you might talk vauntingly about your latest report card. Politicians running for office almost always describe their experience vauntingly, unless of course they are haunted by scandals. Vauntingly comes from the verb vaunt, "boast or praise excessively," with its Latin root vanare, "to utter empty words," from vanus, "idle or empty." WORD FAMILY vauntingly USAGE EXAMPLES A lance, which the Spaniards vauntingly said was for bleeding the English. Darton, William, City Scenes—or a peep into London(2012) In the column it will be noticed that Rameses vauntingly asserts that his conquests were co-extensive with his desires. King, James, Cleopatra's Needle—A History of the...(2011) He would go to some bigger boy with a tale that Dicky had spoken vauntingly of fighting him and beating him hollow, with one hand. Morrison, Arthur, A Child of the Jago(2011) adv in a boastful manner Syn big, boastfully, large
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