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How to use vainglorious in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word vainglorious? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley, warns Scrooge of his vainglorious ways.
In other words, he comes across as a vainglorious know-it-all, absolutely convinced that he's right about everything.
His fatuous smile alone would have aroused their ire before he opened his vainglorious mouth.
His promise to the commissioner of more to come is not just a journalist's vainglorious bluster.
Like many vainglorious self-publicists, he probably thought he could charm the acid interviewer.
His vainglorious speech at the Oscar ceremony claimed a new dawn for British cinema.
He dishes out obloquy to former tutors and students and treats the reader to vainglorious self-congratulation.
Smith possessed a vainglorious streak to his character, but also showed great valour and judgement.
Today, they would have aired the vainglorious fiasco uncensored.
Although Johnston depicts Cook as a cautious and dignified man compared to his vainglorious counterpart, both men risked their reputations in their mutual quest.
Yossarian's vainglorious commanders raise the number of required missions and raise them again and again.
It is vulgar and it is vainglorious and therefore entirely typical of Palin's political style.
Will Jamie Oliver succeed where the vivacious, vainglorious Gayelord failed?
What the multitudes of innocent people have had to suffer so terribly for the guilt and folly, vainglorious ambition of a handful of gangsters.
Blind faith in an over-subscribed, vainglorious myth will only hinder you.
Examples from Classical Literature
Elated they were at their unparalleled successes, but not puffed-up or vainglorious.
There is nothing too extravagant or too vainglorious for me to say of myself.
How could he be humble to that uppish, vainglorious tune, that toreador pomposity?
He was silent for a minute, casting about for the least vainglorious way in which to express himself.
The party stood for a moment exchanging vainglorious remarks with Devil's Row.
To have had a pastor always might have made them vainglorious.
The Germans introduced into their colophons some vainglorious notices.
The superiority assumed by these vainglorious swaggerers was, in general, tacitly admitted.
The mob ran swiftly, with vainglorious shouts from its leaders.
Then even that had ceased and I had dropped into vainglorious apathy.
Hubble, who were surpassingly conceited and vainglorious in being members of so distinguished a procession.
And at the very moment of that vainglorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most deadly shuddering.
These poor fresh-water sailors, so vainglorious on shore, and almost amphibious when on lakes and rivers, lost all heart and stomach the moment they were at sea.
As a footnote, it's interesting to learn that the ship's real-life crew claim Phillips was no hero, but a vainglorious nincompoop whose arrogance led to the hijacking.
Vainglorious as he was, Porthos could not afford to have a baldric wholly of gold, but had at least half.
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