vainglorious

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He tried to persuade himself that he had been vainglorious, and that he had given too much weight to the honor which the University of Oxford would bestow upon him; that he had taken the degree too seriously, and that the Picture's view of it was the view of the rest of the world.

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  1. adjective Characterized by or exhibiting excessive vanity; boastful.
  2. adjective Proceeding from vainglory.

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  • Perhaps you will think that rather vainglorious, but I assure you, my heart [ mon coeur ], that I am very far from thinking I can remain good; I feel I have very much to do to be good according to God. —  Ruin of a Princess
  • Hure Louis XIV ;s brilliant mistress Madame de Montespan was disliked by court and populace alike for her vainglorious spending and imperious attitude. —  Sex with Kings Eleanor Herman
  • Hostile journals delineated Fremont as a shallow, vainglorious, “woolly-horse,” “mule-eating,” “free-love,” “nigger-embracing” black Republican; an extravagant, insubordinate, reckless adventurer; a financial spendthrift and political mountebank. —  Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2
  • Palin demonstrated that toughness, painting Obama as a vainglorious, tax-and-spend liberal, who does not have the stomach to win the war in Iraq. —  The Guardian World News
  • Rather than describe these audacious journeys as reckless or vainglorious, —  Cool Hunting
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