Synonym: big, swelled. Similar words: inglorious, glorious, glorious revolution, uxorious, notorious, laborious, censorious, victorious. Meaning: adj. feeling self-importance.
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1. The bombastic, vainglorious Nivelle had virtually announced to the world his grandiose expectations, making the dreadful defeat doubly damaging.
2. He was rather vainglorious about his own war record.
3. She is a vainglorious woman.
4. Make no vainglorious boasts, I beg you.
5. The vainglorious presence of Marilyn Monroe is placed alongside the subdued countenance of Mother Theresa, Che Guevara glares vehemently in opposition to the pacifistic visage of Mahatma Gandhi.
6. The tone here should be uniformly vainglorious so that it is impossible to tell whether the award is prestigious or not. It does not matter if the award was received a while back.sentencedict.com
7. Possible, sometimes, a strong and vainglorious player may wish to give points, in order that his victory may be the more notable. But I do not think that even this is the true explanation.
8. Just before she and her husband-to-be, Derek, a vainglorious local TV weatherman, are to say their vows, a substance in the meteor transforms her into a 50-foot-high woman.
9. Gal.5:26 Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.
10. It is very vainglorious of you to think that the truth is on your side.
11. Thus, with each page, she becomes increasingly unattractive and vainglorious - brains and spirit corrupted by driving ambition.
12. In the fifth hotel the complimentary stationery carried the most vainglorious letterhead I have ever seen.
13. You'd surely go for his first-rate brain, though you might pass on what his detractors consider the vainglorious temperament that comes bundled with it.
14. Last week, exultant rebels in Tripoli clambered on Gaddafi's vainglorious statue of an American warplane in the grip of a mighty Libyan fist.
15. Behind the words, at once self - pitying and vainglorious , the merits of the case were overwhelming.
16. According to introducing, this network store also is association " originality of a vainglorious title of polished old name plans rich letting a world " medium among them.
17. I don't think that Penny ever took on or saw herself in a vainglorious manner at all representing any gender or any generation.
18. And greater yet than all of these is he who renounces the kingdom of sorrow that he may not seem proud and vainglorious .
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