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vauntingly
adverb
formal mainly disapprovinguk /ˈvɔːn.tɪŋ.li/ us /ˈvɑːn.tɪŋ.li/(also vaultingly, uk /ˈvɒl.tɪŋ.li/)
in a way that shows great pride and confidence, especially in a way that is more than is acceptable or reasonable :
He was described as vauntingly ambitious by those who knew him in the early years.
It's a vaultingly ambitious collection of songs that took ten years to make.
So often and so vauntingly have they sung their victory songs, that they actually believe that they have beaten their enemies.
One employer vauntingly said that he could carry on the work of his establishment with just 20 labourers and the foreman.
I had always been ambitious, vauntingly so.
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