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单词 vainglorious
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Definition of vainglorious in English:

vainglorious

adjective veɪnˈɡlɔːrɪəsˌveɪnˈɡlɔriəs
literary
  • Excessively proud of oneself or one's achievements; overly vain.

    this vainglorious boast of personal infallibility
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley, warns Scrooge of his vainglorious ways.
    • 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.

Derivatives

  • vaingloriously

  • adverbˌveɪnˈɡlɔːrɪəsliˌveɪnˈɡlɔriəsli
    literary
    • If the city only thinks of its own image, it is actually behaving vaingloriously.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He is given the part of Pyramus, though he vaingloriously longs to play all the parts.
      • She always has that vaingloriously blasé look on her face.
      • There are always men like him, eager vaingloriously to display their would-be-insuperable power.
      • A small bird trills its song, vaingloriously trying to compete with the thundering waters below.
  • vaingloriousness

  • nounveɪnˈɡlɔːrɪəsnəsˌveɪnˈɡlɔriəsnəs
    literary
    • It was an unspoken protest against vaingloriousness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If I may say so, lording your success over me by boasting that you told me so is truly the height of vaingloriousness, considering that when we last spoke I remember offering only encouragement.
      • There's a vague radical unease about the vaingloriousness and opulence of it all.
      • I was studying the books of eloquence; for in eloquence it was my ambition to shine, all from a damnable vaingloriousness and for the satisfaction of human vanity.
      • In court papers and interviews, the two lawyers have further accused each other of vaingloriousness.

Rhymes

censorious, glorious, laborious, meritorious, notorious, uproarious, uxorious, victorious
 
 

Definition of vainglorious in US English:

vainglorious

adjectiveˌveɪnˈɡlɔriəsˌvānˈɡlôrēəs
literary
  • Excessively proud of oneself or one's achievements; overly vain.

    this vainglorious boast of personal infallibility
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Like many vainglorious self-publicists, he probably thought he could charm the acid interviewer.
    • The ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley, warns Scrooge of his vainglorious ways.
    • 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.
    • His vainglorious speech at the Oscar ceremony claimed a new dawn for British cinema.
 
 
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