Adjective : a vaporish chiffon dress. ,vaporish autumn mornings. From Dictionary.com.
Empty-headed, vaporish girls had made him feel more masculine and virile, he supposed. From Wordnik.com. [An Unacceptable Offer]
Here on the higher ground, the river fog had thinned to a mere vaporish white cast to the sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Silicon Mage]
It is not a thin, vaporish flat, without depth or density; and its circumference exceeds that of the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Visitors] Reference
He looked about and found himself surrounded by mysterious vaporish bodies that wove about and embraced him in gentle coolness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
'Whenever I find myself growing vaporish I rouse myself, wash and put on a clean shirt, brush my hair and clothes, tie my shoe-strings neatly, and, in fact, adonize, as if I were going out -- then all clean and comfortable, I sit down to write. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
His physician, Dr. — —, as I am told, had, very ignorantly, checked a coming fit of the gout, and scattered it about his body; and it fell particularly upon his nerves, so that he continues exceedingly vaporish; and would neither see nor speak to anybody while he was here. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
No wonder the political writing in the press seems to us vaporish and without definite aims. From Wordnik.com. [Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View] Reference
Garman's was the victory, the victory of bitter knowledge over the vaporish ideals of youth. From Wordnik.com. [The Plunderer] Reference
Through the hazy atmosphere a cloud of dun, vaporish red could be seen trailing over the dim fells. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time] Reference
The house is big and gloomy; my niece is nervous, vaporish; her husband -- well, he's generally away; and the two children are dead. From Wordnik.com. [The Descent of Man and Other Stories] Reference
By the time I got back to the office the old gentleman was as vaporish as a hysterical old woman and he vented his spleen on my unoffending head. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions]
He wheeled around it in order to give me a better view, which was his only departure from routine before, on the line of the arrow's pointing, he took his course, leaving the railroad behind, while ahead the green carpet seemed to end in a vaporish horizon. From Wordnik.com. [My Second Year of the War] Reference
Sounds a bit vaporish to me; then again, writers are often surprised by what they have written and how it is interpreted, sometimes they’re even enlightened. From Wordnik.com. [W.D. Snodgrass looked beneath the consciousness of the author] Reference
Patrick Cosson, Vudu’s vice president of sales and marketing, suggested that some of the digital video announcements coming from C.E.S. this week may be, in the industry’s parlance, a tad vaporish. From Wordnik.com. [High-Definition Movies, Without the Format War - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Then, as the town had come to see him fight for freedom, it came to see him adorn the victory of the being who had conquered him, and over their dishes of tea in the afternoon beaux and beauties of fashion gossiped of the interesting and exciting event, and there were vaporish ladies who vowed they could not have beaten a brute so, and that surely my Lady Dunstanwolde must have looked hot and blowzy while she did it, and have had the air of a great rough man; and there were some pretty tiffs and even quarrels when the men swore that never had she looked so magnificent a beauty and so inflamed the hearts of all beholding her. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady of Quality] Reference
I dislike vaporish females. From Wordnik.com. [Unlikely Duchess]
She would not become a weepy, vaporish female. From Wordnik.com. [The Obedient Bride]
"Of course you know, I suppose, that these vaporish affections are, with most young girls, nothing but the performance of the part which they choose to act before marriage; the mere mists of the morning, poor wenches, which only prognosticate for themselves and their husbands an unclouded day. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference
Nor tempt me further with thy vaporish boast. From Wordnik.com. [Green Fields and Running Brooks, and Other Poems] Reference
103. fume: vaporish fancy. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference
"You are very vaporish these days. From Wordnik.com. [The Leper of Saint Giles]
I tried to travel up a few more words but most of them were vaporous, vapory, vaporish, vaporing, vaporetto, vapor----------on up to vapidity. From Wordnik.com. [Varia] Reference
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