vainglorious
/veɪnˈɡlɔːrɪəs
/adjective literary
Excessively proud of oneself or one’s achievements; overly vain: this vainglorious boast of personal infallibility...
- 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
/ adverb ...- If the city only thinks of its own image, it is actually behaving vaingloriously.
- He is given the part of Pyramus, though he vaingloriously longs to play all the parts.
- There are always men like him, eager vaingloriously to display their would-be-insuperable power.
vaingloriousness
- Although they realized his vaingloriousness after the war, it came too late in the day to save the president's skin.
- Joseph was inexpressibly shocked to observe his son's enthusiasm as he beheld these exhibitions of heathen vaingloriousness.
- One may detect a tone of self-righteous bigotry and decry it, as one may regret some of Paul's vaingloriousness.