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Meanings of
vaporing
in English
Catalan
bravata
Spanish
fanfarronería
Back to the meaning
An instance of boastful talk.
crow
boasting
swagger
brag
bragging
crowing
gasconade
line-shooting
Catalan
bravata
Usage of
vaporing
in English
1
No doubt there was plentiful
vaporing
,
and cases of backsliding might occur.
2
But these South Carolina economists are better at
vaporing
than at calculation.
3
Sir, there has been a good deal of
vaporing
on this subject.
4
In truth, mere
vaporing
hurt nobody, and caused no great alarm.
5
We call it by every name of fleeting, dreaming,
vaporing
imagery.
6
There is just as much empty
vaporing
there as there is down the Boulevards.
7
Empty
vaporing
bullyrooks and braggarts, they encumber the thoroughfares mainly.
8
You are constantly
vaporing
to me about Louis XII.
9
Pretension and
vaporing
are once for all distasteful.
10
Such
vaporing
would be merely another symptom!
11
People who are always
vaporing
about their own importance, and the value of their own possessions, are disagreeable.
12
Was it mere
vaporing
when you said, 'If I cannot save them, I can at least drown with them'?
13
One might well excuse Walpole if he became sometimes a little impatient of the attitudinizing and the
vaporing
of the Patriots.
14
Ensign Dave Darrin, overhearing that conversation, and well knowing that he was listening to more than
vaporing
,
felt his face blanch.
15
She felt as if she could have borne almost anything but this-theidea of her father
vaporing
before a picture of the Madonna.
16
We have a right to reject with pity or with scorn the stammerings of incompetence, the babble of lunacy, or the
vaporing
of imposture.
Other examples for "vaporing"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
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vaporing
vapore
Verb
Present
Frequent collocations
empty vaporing
harmless vaporing
mere vaporing
plentiful vaporing
such vaporing
More collocations
Translations for
vaporing
Catalan
bravata
fanfarronada
vacil·lada
fardada
Spanish
fanfarronería
bravuconería
fanfarronada
pavoneo
Vaporing
through the time