Other Word Forms
- vaingloriously adverb
- vaingloriousness noun
Etymology
Origin of vainglorious
Example Sentences
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On the related but perhaps irrelevant question of individual character, the evidence is clear: Wilhelm II was an unstable and vainglorious idiot who wound up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
From Salon
She’s been warning us since 1818 that vainglorious innovators will destroy the earth.
From Los Angeles Times
As Charles Foster Kane, a sendup of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, Welles embodied the image of a vainglorious Great Man.
From Los Angeles Times
As the team takes samples to measure water quality, they do not mince their words about the train, calling it a "pharaonic monument" which they say was erected to a vainglorious leader.
From BBC
The tragedy is that reality does not care one iota for our vainglorious beliefs.
From Scientific American
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