Thesaurus / vainglorious
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As vainglorious was Richard Westmacott's retreat from the field of unstricken battle as his advance upon it had been inglorious.
MISTRESS WILDINGRAFAEL SABATINITo have had a pastor always might have made them vainglorious.
AULD LICHT IDYLLSJ. M. BARRIEWhere formerly they were vainglorious, spiteful and envious, they now become humble, gentle and patient.
COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANSMARTIN LUTHERI could cite a number of amusing illustrations of this vainglorious sentiment, but one will suffice.
BELFORD'S MAGAZINE, VOL. II, NO. 3, FEBRUARY 1889VARIOUSHe would condescend to that for the sake, on a near day, of publicly humiliating a certain vainglorious jewellery dealer.
THE WRONG TWINHARRY LEON WILSONThe first was Horatio Gates, a vainglorious man, given to intrigue and treachery.
HERO STORIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORYALBERT F. BLAISDELLAnd at the very moment of that vainglorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most deadly shuddering.
THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDEROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONHe made no concealment of these vainglorious boasts, and thus gave us the full key to his future designs.
THE MEMOIRS OF GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN, COMPLETEWILLIAM T. SHERMANI returned scornfully, for it would never do to encourage this vainglorious spirit. '
UNCLE MAXROSA NOUCHETTE CAREYHe was no longer harshly self-assertive, vainglorious, or brutally frank concerning the passion that consumed him.
HEART OF THE BLUE RIDGEWALDRON BAILYWORDS RELATED TO VAINGLORIOUS
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- cavalier
- cocky
- conceited
- contemptuous
- cool
- disdainful
- dismissive
- domineering
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- windy
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- inner-directed
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- wrapped up in oneself
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- high-and-mighty
- high-handed
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- lofty
- narcissistic
- ostentatious
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- self-satisfied
- sniffy
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- affected
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- egomaniacal
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- haughty
- individualistic
- inflated
- inner-directed
- intimate
- intrinsic
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- egomaniacal
- egotistical
- haughty
- individualistic
- inflated
- inner-directed
- intimate
- intrinsic
- introverted
- isolated
- narcissistic
- obsessive
- opinionated
- personal
- pompous
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- self-absorbed
- self-admiring
- self-centered
- self-important
- self-involved
- self-seeking
- selfish
- snobbish
- stuck on oneself
- stuck-up
- subjective
- superior
- swollen
- vain
- vainglorious
- wrapped up in oneself
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