| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| FRIVOLOUSLY | Vainly | |
| CONCEITEDLY | Vainly | |
| RODOMONT | Bragging; vainly boasting. | |
| CHIMERICALLY | Wildy; vainly; fancifully. | |
| CLAIRVOYANT | Actor vainly replaced psychic | |
| VAUNTFUL | Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious; boastful; vainglorious. | |
| IDLY | In a idle manner; ineffectually; vainly; lazily; carelessly; (Obs.) foolishly. | |
| WOULD-BE | Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a would-be poet. | |
| TURGID | Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking. | |
| FANGLED | New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled. | |
| CHIMERICAL | Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects. | |
| WASTE | ...rodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by ... | |