vain
Example Sentences
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Trier expresses it more bluntly: “She won’t,” he predicts, “become one of those vain actors who play it safe.”
From Los Angeles Times
Van Veen's hard work looked to be in vain as he missed five match darts, but Humphries was equally wasteful and fell to a fourth consecutive loss to the Dutchman.
From BBC
"Unless lessons are learned, and fundamental change is implemented in Northern Ireland, the human and financial cost and sacrifice of the Covid-19 pandemic will have been in vain."
From BBC
"It isn't really about giving the patients back what they lost, because that's not possible, but sort of almost making sure their suffering wasn't in vain, that we do learn from this," she says.
From BBC
Strong cases languished in bureaucratic limbo while families of applicants pleaded in vain.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
