Thesaurus / vainglorious

vainglorious

How to use vainglorious in a sentence

As vainglorious was Richard Westmacott's retreat from the field of unstricken battle as his advance upon it had been inglorious.

To have had a pastor always might have made them vainglorious.

Where formerly they were vainglorious, spiteful and envious, they now become humble, gentle and patient.

I could cite a number of amusing illustrations of this vainglorious sentiment, but one will suffice.

He would condescend to that for the sake, on a near day, of publicly humiliating a certain vainglorious jewellery dealer.

THE WRONG TWINHARRY LEON WILSON

The first was Horatio Gates, a vainglorious man, given to intrigue and treachery.

And at the very moment of that vainglorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most deadly shuddering.

He made no concealment of these vainglorious boasts, and thus gave us the full key to his future designs.

I returned scornfully, for it would never do to encourage this vainglorious spirit. '

UNCLE MAXROSA NOUCHETTE CAREY

He was no longer harshly self-assertive, vainglorious, or brutally frank concerning the passion that consumed him.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985