Vainglorious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VAINGLORIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• Feeling or indicating vainglory; elated by vanity; boastful.
• feeling self-importance
• excessively proud of oneself or one's achievements; overly vain
• marked by vainglory, excessive pride, especially in one's achievements or abilities
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• marked by vainglory; boastful
• marked by vainglory, excessive pride, especially in one\'s achievements or abilities

Words related to VAINGLORIOUS

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Words that contain VAINGLORIOUS

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How to use VAINGLORIOUS in a sentence

• He worked on a vainglorious, excitable, and proud people, at the height of their imperial power.
• He would condescend to that for the sake, on a near day, of publicly humiliating a certain vainglorious jewellery dealer.
• The greatest military talents that France has given birth to seemed created to earn laurels, not for themselves, but for the brow of that vain-glorious Monarch.
• It will never do to make the plea that a government so vain-glorious and boastful could not have conquered this tribe of savages, if the will to do so had existed.
• At any rate, I have said nothing of my vainglorious impulse for nearly forty years.
• It seemed like a vainglorious display of his uniform in order to let us take full cognizance of his eminence.
• It was soon seen that these promises were merely the vain-glorious boasts of his own heated brain.
• The former was very vain-glorious, and therefore wished to put the latter to shame or to kill him by engaging him in an attempt to perform something impossible.
• Catholic writers charge Luther with having set up this teaching, partly to spite the Pope whom he hated, partly to gratify his vainglorious aspirations to become famous.
• The vainglorious Croesus, at the summit of his conquests and his riches, endeavors to win from his visitor Solon an opinion that he is the happiest of mankind.
• Between the prophecy of the snag-boat captain and my vainglorious answer at the Cheyenne crossing, I learned to respect the words of the man who invented the eccentric old river.
• Nor is this confidence a mere sentiment, born of the imagination, and nurtured by vainglorious hope.
• The boast of Napoleon, however, was pleasing to a vain-glorious people, and none dared dispute his word.
• Ambitious Louis and the vainglorious Kaiser were only second-rate soldiers, who would never have won their own way to the highest command.
• In fact your Bible puts him in the position of a vain-glorious tyrant.
• You are especially charged in this Degree to be modest and humble, and not vain-glorious nor filled with self-conceit.
• They made no vainglorious claims to the original authorship of ideas.
• Even the vainglorious Plante, who piqued himself on his equestrian skill, was once or twice nearly unhorsed, from having chosen his road badly.
• Long arms, hanging down and touching the knees, though such arms are rarely seen, denotes a man liberal, but withal vain-glorious, proud and inconstant.
• A person whose skin is smooth, fat and white, is a person, curious, vain-glorious, timorous, shame-faced, malicious, false, and too wise to believe all he hears.
• Consequently he had appeared to believe all that the vainglorious Musketeer had told him, convinced that no friendship will hold out against a surprised secret.
• The Italian and the Sierra Leone nigger ran out of their way on to the forecastle head, and they came on, vainglorious in numbers, and armed with their deadly knives.
• So vainglorious were they because of their own size and strength that they denied the existence of a Creator.
• The war had not lasted a month before this vainglorious boast was falsified, and we were compelled to recognise the Transvaal as a belligerent State.
• He had even a vainglorious desire to convince Lazarus of the truth of his own view and restore his soul to life, as his body had been restored.
• Why, bless you, man, I have one patient, a middle-aged woman, who has been laid up for years with rheumatism, and she is fairly vainglorious, and so is her mother.
• Among the true were some vainglorious fools Called by the fife and drum from native mire To lord and strut in shoulder-straps and buttons.
• The bold, vain-glorious proprietor was a ruined man.
• Peter was a man of too strong sense to be elated and vainglorious in view of such success.

Similar words containing VAINGLORIOU without suffix s

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