vauntingly

English

Etymology

vaunting +‎ -ly

Adverb

vauntingly (comparative more vauntingly, superlative most vauntingly)

So as to vaunt; with boastful display.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 42:
  This riddle was quite beyond Mrs. Piper, Uncle Jobson laughed vauntingly.

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