vaniloquent
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin vaniloquens.
Adjective
[edit]vaniloquent (comparative more vaniloquent, superlative most vaniloquent)
- Talking in a vain or foolish way
- 1910, Gustavus Myers, History of the great American fortunes[1]:
- The boards of trade and chambers of commerce were largely made up of men who, while assuming the most vaniloquent pretensions, were themselves malodorous with fraud.
- 1977, Willy Peremans, Historiographia antiqua[2]:
- Carthage too was in the hands of the vaniloquent and extravagant Hasdrubal, gross in appearance and utterly callous.