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Meanings of vanity in English
Low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup.
Synonyms
Examples for "dresser"
Examples for "dresser"
1
The Dish was on the dresser and the Spoon in the basket.
2
Three other directors hurried in, the elderly advanced dresser in the lead.
3
He was a nice dresser, too: expensive sweaters, silk shirts, Italian footwear.
4
There were a good ten pictures framed and placed on the dresser.
5
The bed was made, the dresser clear, and Ross's small duffel missing.
1
I'm going, she says, leaving us to ourselves at the dressing table.
2
It was on the dressing table, at the bottom of piled-up litter.
3
There is a reproduction of a Jacobean dressing table in her room.
4
Robin put the mobile back on the dressing table and continued dressing.
5
Merina had the largest collection in a chest on her dressing table.
1
A photograph of her Majesty the Queen stood on the toilet table.
2
In the foreground, at the left, an overturned toilet table with scattered utensils.
3
She crossed the room, quiet as any mouse, and reached the toilet table.
4
Agnes found her watch, forgotten on the toilet table, as she had anticipated.
5
The rest of the powders were intact and still lay upon her toilet table.
Usage of vanity in English
1
She is all vanity: fancies herself beautiful; witty; in short, like you.
2
Even these four showers and double vanity, she said with great enthusiasm.
3
My professional vanity was intrigued; I thought I could save The Times.
4
Hugh was always beginning things he couldn't finish: law, the vanity, fatherhood.
5
The tears were in his eyes; his sensitive vanity was cruelly wounded.
6
It was not vanity, for once; it was trust in your friendship.
7
But the vanity of the dwarf prevented the execution of the plan.
8
Believe me, I was ashamed of my vanity that night, Kapoor said.
9
She kept her fingernails short yet filed and painted, her personal vanity.
10
Now he didn't want her any longer, but his vanity wanted balm.
11
Pottpetschmidt found in it the pleasure of tickled vanity and physical exercise.
12
These are set into smoked glass panels set atop blacked vanity units.
13
Fitted vanity cases in rare leathers, and all that sort of thing.
14
There certainly wasn't enough music to justify this colossally embarrassing vanity project.
15
His vanity would not get in the way of making it work.
16
Of course I have no personal vanity in saying this to you.
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Vanity through the time
Vanity across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Australia
Less common
United States of America
Less common
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