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
He had as little of the insolence and perverseness of Orford as of the petulance and vaingloriousness of Montague.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
Mr. Gates was the only genius fit to conduct the war; and with a vaingloriousness, which he afterwards generously owned, he did not refuse the homage which was paid him.
From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray
"They will put it all down to vaingloriousness and affectation."
From A Hungarian Nabob by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
She could not help holding herself with dignity, if not with a trifle of vaingloriousness, as, between half-a-dozen eager hands and admiring eyes, she stepped down into it.
From Sisters by Ada Cambridge
