vaniloquent

comparative more vaniloquent · superlative most vaniloquent

1. Talking in a vain or foolish way

   Carthage too was in the hands of the vaniloquent and extravagant Hasdrubal, gross in appearance and utterly callous.

   1977, Willy Peremans, Historiographia antiqua

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   The boards of trade and chambers of commerce were largely made up of men who, while assuming the most vaniloquent pretensions, were themselves malodorous with fraud.

   1910, Gustavus Myers, History of the great American fortunes