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vain::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless |
a vain attempt.
vain::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen, swollen-headed |
| Derivation | vanity |
vain about her clothes.
Examples of vain
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Since my return to Iraq in 2003, I had searched for her in vain-until last year.
From the newsweek.com
The tea was already brewing, the steam rising like good sense above vain things.
From the sacbee.com
He tried in vain for several years to secure a federal earmark to build a fence.
From the nytimes.com
Jon Rogers'5-45 was in vain for Brislington, who slipped by 93 runs at Minehead.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
They jumped in the freezing river and tried in vain to save Lake and the others.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Some, like the organisers of the crassly commercial Atlanta Games, wait in vain.
From the nzherald.co.nz
I looked in vain for a building, a road, or a human figure, but there were none.
From the guardian.co.uk
And Chris Ellis-Stanton gives a stylish and amusing caricature of vain machismo.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Tjerk had an arm and a leg shot off, yet still in vain tried to rally his force.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Conceited: characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and ...
- Bootless: unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"
- (vainly) to no avail; "he looked for her in vain"; "the city fathers tried vainly to find a solution"
- Vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia (VAIN) is a condition that describes premalignant histological findings in the vagina characterized by dysplastic changes. It is generally asymptomatic.
- Vain are a glam metal band formed in San Francisco in 1986, at the last wave of the Glam Metal era, and in a time when the city's main musical export was thrash metal slowly changing into punk. ...
- Vain (1966-1991) was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse that dominated Australian sprint racing in the period 1968-70, and went on to become a top sire. The chestnut colt by Wilkes out of the Orgoglio mare Elated won 12 of the 14 races he contested, and ran second in the other two.
- (Vaini) The island country of Tonga can be divided into 5 divisions and 23 districts.
- Vains is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
- Overly proud of oneself, especially when concerning appearance; having very little substance; effecting no purpose; pointless, futile
