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Definition of "vaingloriously" []

  • In a vainglorious manner. (adverb)

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Use "vaingloriously" in a sentence
  • "Early in the film, he strolls down a London street, tosses a small bomb through the door of an Israeli bank and returns to his pied-à-terre for a vaingloriously steamy bath."
  • "A mere 18 months after he vaingloriously proclaimed that he would have the job done in a parliament, he now promises a diet of gruel into the foreseeable future."
  • "Some of their most prominent figures are vaingloriously bragging about heading to Washington to "take our government back" and undo everything Obama has enacted since he arrived in the Oval Office."