Meanings
adverbvaingloriously (comparative more vaingloriously, superlative most vaingloriously)
comparative more vaingloriously · superlative most vaingloriously
- 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
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