Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance.
Characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own 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 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.
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 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 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.
6 He sees that egotistic materialism has superseded the ideal aspirations of the ghetto.
7 Bitter and impious they were-asthose of egotistic men naturally are in suffering.
8 In one sense we must be egotistic , if self-knowledge is egotism.
9 The King was just an egotistic little man who liked notoriety and admiration.
10 There were, needless to say, selfless exceptions to the egotistic rule.
11 She had led, on the whole, so far, an egotistic life.
12 She had found him only a man, self-conscious, egotistic and domineering.
13 Another wretched woman has the simple egotistic mania that she has caused the duel.
14 We do not deny that there are plenty of egotistic instincts in isolated individuals.
15 His absorption in his new character was not entirely egotistic .
16 The movements of exaltation which belong to genius are egotistic by their very nature.
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