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Meanings of vain in English
Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance.
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Examples for "swollen"
Examples for "swollen"
1
Two rescue workers had also drowned in swollen rivers today, he added.
2
The sea was swollen and billowy; it made the Nautilus rock violently.
3
Hundreds of bodies remain buried in mud or floating in swollen rivers.
4
Avoid crossing rivers and swollen streams where water is above your ankles.
5
The body is club-shape and moves with the swollen end in advance.
1
What information could that conceited ass have that could possibly help you?
2
The Chinese are too self-conceited to give in without a sound thrashing.
3
I suppose it sounds conceited, but I have unbounded confidence in myself.
4
It is the conceited fools, who feel safe, that are in danger.
5
I'm not being conceited or anything, but it just fell into place.
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But I am running on about myself in a most egotistical style.
2
I suppose the world is just all egotistical children and broken-in people.
3
The exquisite bit from Catullus will best excuse my otherwise egotistical quotation.
4
In his gloomiest mood he is most insincere, most egotistical, most pretentious.
5
Diaz had the right to be egotistical, but he was modesty itself.
1
I believe country-people are even more egotistic than the dwellers in cities.
2
They accuse England of perpetuating for egotistic ends the state of anarchy.
3
Though corrupt and egotistic, that aristocracy was, in some instances, singularly impartial.
4
The male indifference to death seemed stupid, egotistic and criminal to her.
5
But if they could reform their egotistic attitudes, they could change their destiny.
1
The Chinese are too self-conceited to give in without a sound thrashing.
2
The question with which Philotas puzzled the self-conceited physician was this.
3
Only, my dear sir, one is quite self-conceited enough in this imperfect state.
4
She was always an upstart, self-conceited thing; but I'm sure I pity her.
5
Fenton was neither a self-conceited person nor a blind man, groping through life.
1
Are you really swollen-headed enough to imagine that it was you who drove the French out of Russia in 1812?
Usage of vain in English
1
I coaxed; I threatened; I persuaded; but it was all in vain.
2
They organize in vain; they protest in vain; they appeal in vain.
3
I can say this, however: your good looks haven't made you vain.
4
Mark inquired; Lord Minchampstead inquired; great personages inquired; but all in vain.
5
Her aunt scolded in vain; in spite of the remarks of Mlle.
6
In vain they shouted; their voices were lost in the echoless air.
7
The room was empty; she searched him in all niches in vain.
8
But it was in vain; the tumult was constantly on the increase.
9
And in the midst of the fleecy tangle Snowball struggled in vain.
10
Faith is desire; and desires rooted in faith cannot be in vain.
11
In vain we pushed with the oars; the boat would not budge.
12
Everywhere in the city, honest men begged for honest work in vain.
13
As a rule, we are vain about our hands for good reason.
14
Several times I argued with him and the Cardinal; but in vain.
15
Perhaps it was a roe deer; McKay flashed the direction in vain.
16
It was all in vain; the move turned out to be premature.
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United Kingdom
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Ireland
Rare