vain
adjective
excessively proud of or concerned about one's own appearance, qualities, achievements, etc.; conceited.
vainness
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a word derived from
vain.
Example Sentences
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It was become such a world as did not seem worth a man's while to live in: a world of vainness, of hollowness, of meanness, of nothing but illusions.
From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Rafael Sabatini
His was a curious temperament, and this sentimentality, born of vainness and idle hours, by no means expressed it all.
From Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch by Henry Rider Haggard
What is a life in vainness spent, That will not bear the common test, When, laid to rest In earth's cold breast, We sleep at last, insentient?
From The Call of the Mountains and other Poems by James E. Pickering
But this was a position the vainness of which I couldn't join: it was no part of my disposition to combat, or even regret, the inevitable.
From San Crist?bal de la Habana by Joseph Hergesheimer
"If only we could have a cup of good hot coffee first, before we start," said Beth, and she smiled at the vainness of the thought.
From The Furnace of Gold by J. N. Marchand
