Definition of "vaporing" []

• Foolishly bombastic; boastful. (adjective)
• Boastful or bombastic talk or behavior: "All his . . . dreams of fame were the vaporings of a shoddy aesthete without talent” ( Thomas Wolfe). (noun)

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• "Sometime that day he also found time to compose "Elegy for a Cove Full of Bones," a poem about his desire to escape "the vaporing coves of death.""
• "Yeah, things like facts and evidence are so quaint and naive, particularly when juicy gossip and moral vaporing are so much more exciting."
• "“When it is borne in mind that this boast finds its most frequent expression in the pages of those journals whose editors are men of education, in at least one instance men holding degrees conferred by Harvard University, it may be seen that the boast is not to be dismissed lightly as the ignorant vaporing of untrained minds.”"