Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance.
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Examples for "vain "
Examples for "vain "
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.
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 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?
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.
6 I think not-thoughit may sound conceited and presumptuous to say it.
7 Hawkins was as mean and parsimonious as he was pompous and conceited .
8 Yet they are real, real as his own empty and conceited wisdom.
9 Perhaps you are conceited enough to think you could do it better.
10 It sounds conceited to say yes, but nevertheless I think I should.
11 You know how conceited we late learners are, as the proverb says.
12 He is a conceited puppy, and, in my opinion, a worthless fellow.
13 I was ambitious and conceited , but my aspirations were vague and shapeless.
14 A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.
15 But he was interfered with by the pragmatical, imbecile, and conceited Congress.
16 I was a conceited young person, and fond of giving myself airs.
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