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Examples of vainglorious
vainglorious
It is vainglorious of people like me to give the review before it's taken place.
From the dailymail.co.uk
Vainglorious and clumsy, the new titles at least achieve a certain hybrid vigor.
From the theatlantic.com
There is no vainglorious obscurantism here to match the obscurantism of the poet.
From the economist.com
He has always come across as deeply untrustworthy and extremely vainglorious.
From the economist.com
It is the vainglorious plans put forward by the AGW lobbyists that worry me.
From the guardian.co.uk
Captain Scott had condemned his men to icy deaths in Antarctica by vainglorious bungling.
From the telegraph.co.uk
This is undoubtedly vainglorious, but not in the way that many of his detractors allege.
From the economist.com
The vainglorious act of defiance might even be Ian Paisley's last stand.
From the time.com
But some see Cameron as a vainglorious auteur and seek to puncture his perceived pretension.
From the abcnews.go.com
- Big: feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"
- (vainglory) boastfulness: outspoken conceit
- In conventional parlance, vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others. Prior to the 14th century it did not have such narcissistic undertones, and merely meant futility. ...
- (Vainglory (poem)) Vainglory is the title given to an Old English gnomic or homiletic poem of eighty-four lines, preserved in the Exeter Book. ...
- With excessive vanity or unwarranted pride
- (vaingloriously) in a vainglorious manner
- Characterized by or exhibiting excessive vanity; boastful
- Boastfully vain and proud of oneself.
