vainglory
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That’s the mantra for wide receivers, a group long known for their vainglory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
Vidal gives wicked, witty renditions of the infighting, backstabbing and vainglory of such troublesome men as Gen. George B. McClellan, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase and John Wilkes Booth.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2019
Tseng told them it would look as if it were billowing in the wind, but the flag just looks abused, and the men in front of it appear puffed with vainglory.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 23, 2019
Her greatest legacy could be to inspire a new generation of philanthropists driven, like her, not by vainglory but by justice.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2018
Once that message is well and truly ingrained in you, it feels like vainglory to imagine one’s own likes and dislikes could matter to other people.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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