Synonyms for vainglorious
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : veyn-glawr-ee-uh s, -glohr- |
| Phonetic Transcription : veɪnˈglɔr i əs, -ˈgloʊr- |
Top 10 synonyms for vainglorious
Définition of vainglorious
Origin :- late 15c., from vainglory + -ous. Related: Vaingloriously; vaingloriousness.
- adj boastful, proud
- The other (greatly to the vainglorious man's surprise) said: "I accept the challenge."
- Extract from : « Aino Folk-Tales » by Basil Hall Chamberlain
- There is nothing too extravagant or too vainglorious for me to say of myself.
- Extract from : « A Day's Ride » by Charles James Lever
- To have had a pastor always might have made them vainglorious.
- Extract from : « Auld Licht Idylls » by J. M. Barrie
- Then even that had ceased and I had dropped into vainglorious apathy.
- Extract from : « Behind the Beyond » by Stephen Leacock
- The mob ran swiftly, with vainglorious shouts from its leaders.
- Extract from : « The Girl in the Golden Atom » by Raymond King Cummings
- I answered, quite too happy to be anything but vainglorious.
- Extract from : « The Affair at the Inn » by Kate Douglas Wiggin
- The Germans introduced into their colophons some vainglorious notices.
- Extract from : « The Printed Book » by Henri Bouchot
- Art thou a savage, resenting all address, or some vainglorious man?
- Extract from : « Theocritus, Bion and Moschus » by Theocritus
- Vainglorious males, they doubt her gift, because she is a female!
- Extract from : « The Maid of Sker » by Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- On the gulf of Urab the people are warlike, vainglorious, and revengeful.
- Extract from : « The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 » by Hubert Howe Bancroft
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