vainglorious

• So vainglorious were they because of their own size and strength that they denied the existence of a Creator. —  Last of the Great Scouts The Life Story of William F Cody
• Veracini was conceited and vainglorious, and these traits of his character have given rise to a number of rather inconsequential stories. —  Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday
• Hostile journals delineated Fremont as a shallow, vainglorious, “woolly-horse,” —  Abraham Lincoln A History
• Both he and you are very vainglorious, I suppose, about O'Connell; but although I was delighted on every account at his late victory, [112] or rather at the late victory of justice and constitutional law, he never was a hero of mine and is not likely to become one. —  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• I think it will be enough for our vainglorious talker.” —  Oscar Wilde

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