English

Adverb

vaingloriously ‎(comparative more vaingloriously, superlative most vaingloriously)

1. In a vainglorious manner.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     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.