vaingloriousness
Example Sentences
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Dim moon-eyed fishes near Gaze at the gilded gear, And query, "What does this vaingloriousness down here?"
From Time Magazine Archive
With this was united a tendency at times to oscillate to the other extreme of vaingloriousness.
From Great Italian and French Composers by George T. (George Titus) Ferris
Now I allow you to laugh at my vaingloriousness, and then you may pin it to Mrs. Best's satisfaction in the dedication to Dowager Majesty.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
Manifestly he had repented of the vaingloriousness of those herald angels and their dome; and practically took the hint of my dispraise in the adoption of that humbler tombstone.
From My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper
A super-sensitive honor led him to fear that his successful rival might suspect him of vaingloriousness.
From The Captain of the Kansas by Louis Tracy
