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Meanings of own vanity in English

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Usage of own vanity in English
1
Now all she saw was a man obsessed with his own vanity.
Consent to kill: a thriller
2
She was ashamed of her credulity, and blushed for her own vanity.
Frederick the Great and His Court
3
She was playing with his honor, with Rodney, with her own vanity.
Dangerous Days
4
Just as some girls encourage a man to gratify their own vanity.
The Independence of Claire
5
My own vanity, naturally, leads me to ask so much as that.
54-40 or Fight
6
It's your own vanity that concerns you, far more than his happiness.
More About Peggy
7
It was the consequence of her own folly, her own vanity.
The Summons
8
Her extraordinary prettiness delighted her, and then she laughed at her own vanity.
The Half-Hearted
9
Nothing is so blinding to the merits of others as one's own vanity.
Madame Flirt / A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'
10
I risked everything, and I've lost everything by my own vanity.
The World for Sale, Volume 2.
11
His business consists of the erection of ugly monuments to his own vanity.
The Irish Times
12
It was her popularity and my own vanity that I was in love with.
The Princess Passes
13
It appealed, of course, to his own vanity and grandiosity.
The Irish Times
14
But in this, he fell victim to his own vanity.
Daughters of the Nile
15
Yet his own vanity and vehemence made him unfit to be a party leader.
Formation of the Union, 1750-1829
16
They seemed to mock her as with peacock eyes, symbolic of her own vanity.
The Butterfly House
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