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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He forbids it, Being free from vainness and self-glorious pride; Giving full trophy, signal, and ostent Quite from himself to God.
From King Henry V by William Shakespeare
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
It was as though the love letter of Juliet had led her here to show her as in a glass darkly the vainness of love in the vainness of life.
From The Ghost Girl by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
"Oh dear!" exclaimed Ariadne, feeling the vainness of her wish to fly from the god.
From Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
