vanity,

For some reason or other, most probably out of tawdry vanity,

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

My host greeted me with great cordiality; Mrs. Fitzsimons said I was an elegant figure for the Phoenix; and indeed, without vanity,

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

Well, but this acquits thee not of my charge of vanity,

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

I say I'm frank and forthright, but that's merely lies and vanity,

Gilbert & Sullivan Online 2000

I say I'm frank and forthright, but that's merely lies and vanity,

Newsgroup Personality 2000

They have believed, or have pretended to believe, that I was seeking a miserable celebrity in the ashes of my own heart: they have said, that by an anticipation of vanity,

International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various

I was endowed from an early age with a fertile and versatile imagination, and creative powers which, without vanity,

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891 Various

In meeting Goodman Elder spoke of pride and vanity,

The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard

For some reason or other, most probably out of tawdry vanity,

Oscar Wilde Harris, Frank 1916

[33] Therefore their days did he consume in vanity,

LXXVIII. Book III 1909