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Meanings of inordinate vanity in English

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Usage of inordinate vanity in English
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He had inordinate vanity, and there are many stories about his foppishness.
Youth and the Bright Medusa
2
Craven Le Noir, among his other graces, was gifted with inordinate vanity.
Capitola the Madcap
3
It is your inordinate vanity that prompts you to abuse your monstrous power.
The House of the Vampire
4
Shields was a man of inordinate vanity and a corresponding irascibility.
Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01
5
Perhaps, without inordinate vanity, I may be permitted to preserve those which follow.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
6
Wonderful rings!-emblemsof your inordinate vanity and vulgar wealth- Iforgotthem!
The Secret Power
7
Their object is to merge all natural and all social sentiment in inordinate vanity.
Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
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She knew her own weakness-herinordinate vanity; for vanity is the weakness of strong women.
The Sowers
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But Oscar Wilde was conscious of great ability and was driven by an inordinate vanity.
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1
10
He had, like most Frenchmen, an inordinate vanity, and loved incense from all ranks and conditions.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09: European Statesmen
11
He was possessed of an inordinate vanity.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
12
Edmund Burke had an interview with him and held that inordinate vanity was the leading trait in his character.
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 01
13
Their inordinate vanity is well called the slum counterpart of self-esteem, and Riis calls the gang a club run wild.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
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He had, however, become independent at too early an age, and this had brought into play his natural inordinate vanity.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters
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Thus can inordinate vanity prolong the true triumph of genius, and impress its own view of itself upon the minds of millions.
The Spell of Egypt
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Terrible and sudden in his wrath, he was yet of inordinate vanity, and was easily led by those who understood his weakness.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 04: 1555-59
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