vaniloquent

English

Etymology

From Latin vaniloquens.

Adjective

vaniloquent (comparative more vaniloquent, superlative most vaniloquent)

  1. Talking in a vain or foolish way
    • 1910, Gustavus Myers, History of the great American fortunes:
      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:
      Carthage too was in the hands of the vaniloquent and extravagant Hasdrubal, gross in appearance and utterly callous.
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