vainness
- 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 Sabatini, Rafael
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 Hergesheimer, Joseph
"Oh dear!" exclaimed Ariadne, feeling the vainness of her wish to fly from the god.
From Phineas Redux by Trollope, Anthony
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 Shakespeare, William
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 Haggard, Henry Rider
