Synonym: boastful, conceited, egocentric, egotistical, fruitless, futile, haughty, ineffectual, lofty, proud, self-centered, unsuccessful. Antonym: effective, effectual. Similar words: in vain, maintain, prevail, available, be available, availability, pain, ain't. Meaning: [veɪn] adj. 1. characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance 2. unproductive of success.
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151. Twice Cantona stole into position at the far post waiting in vain for crosses.
152. Of course it's just possible that she has poor eyesight - a woman like that would be too vain to wear spectacles.
153. She is not a vain woman, but she is always conscious that others are looking at her.
154. But I knew this was a vain hope because the house was always locked securely.
155. Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph. Charles Dickens
156. Guided by a mournful bleating, he came across several groups of sheep, huddled together in the vain hope of safety.
157. Perhaps the brothers had waited in vain for me to make some retraction.
158. So look at your friends,(sentencedict.com) see what they are a little vain about and then multiply by a factor of ten.
159. Miranda, while not vain, did not suffer from false modesty.
160. In vain did he protest that he was here on holiday and nothing else.
161. After trying in vain to rouse it, she stuffed it back in her pocket.
162. The next morning Archer scoured the town in vain for more yellow roses.
163. I had visited her often in the London hospital where vain efforts were made to stop the spread of cancer.
164. The protesters flung handfuls of earth into the trenches in a vain attempt to lift the siege of the West Bank town.
165. They flicked ash from their cigarettes into the empty wine-glasses and shouted each other down in vain attempts to be witty.
166. Sons of louts grappled with the coffin in vain; they could neither cram it in nor twist it out.
167. Puzzled looking blokes strain their necks for the dartboard,(sentencedict.com) wide-eyed girls search in vain for the stage.
168. Something walking across her grave ... or the forces in heaven laughing at her vain attempts to re-write her future?
169. They are so vain in bed, much more vain than women.
170. In his vain way, he placed the same faith in jungles that earlier whites had put in cathedrals or steam ships.
171. They can often be seen climbing up creosoted telegraph-poles in a vain search for food.
172. Atmel is spending $ 400 million this year in a vain attempt to meet demand.
173. For 17 years, 52-year-old Anthony waited in vain for a kidney transplant.
174. Mr Lamont's squandering of £1 billion in his vain bid to prop up the pound has not helped.
175. Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother. Robert Frost
176. One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. Kurt Vonnegut
177. This proved a vain hope, as the young student soon acquired a following of like-minded people.
178. They tried in vain to buy off the opposition.
179. He tried to console herm but in vain.
180. She had a right to be vain of it.