vaingloriously en · ADV
Etymology
Etymology tree English vainglorious Middle English -ly English -ly English vaingloriously From vainglorious + -ly.
Meanings
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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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more vaingloriously | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most vaingloriously | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |