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
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.
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.