Sentence example with the word 'vainglorious'

vainglorious

boastful, conceited, gasconading, narcistic, self-applauding, self-congratulating, self-endeared, self-gratulatory, self-satisfied, supercilious, vaunting

Definition adj. feeling self-importance

Last update: April 26, 2016


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He is a vainglorious person and blows his own trumpet.   [adjective]

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Ostensibly a solemn revenge for the burning of Greek temples by Xerxes, it has been justified as a symbolical act calculated to impress usefully the imagination of the East, and condemned as a senseless and vainglorious work of destruction.   [Please select]

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With much vainglorious boasting from the men, they all rested there before the homeward swim.   [Please select]

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A desperate gleam, baleful and vainglorious, flashed over his face.   [Please select]

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But the Scotsman, unseen by the vainglorious half-caste, shook his head fiercely.   [Please select]

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"Be not vainglorious," he added, "at all you have accomplished."   [Please select]

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He worked on a vainglorious, excitable, and proud people, at the height of their imperial power.   [Please select]

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Hubble, who were surpassingly conceited and vainglorious in being members of so distinguished a procession.   [Please select]

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