Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With vainglory or inflated arrogance; boastfully.
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- adverb In a
vainglorious manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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A mere 18 months after he vaingloriously proclaimed that he would have the job done in a parliament, he now promises a diet of gruel into the foreseeable future.
Cameron: over-confident, cavalier and careless… and still on top | Andrew Rawnsley 2011
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Early in the film, he strolls down a London street, tosses a small bomb through the door of an Israeli bank and returns to his pied-à-terre for a vaingloriously steamy bath.
TV Preview: Sundance Channel's 5 1/2-hour biopic 'Carlos' Hank Stuever 2010
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Some of their most prominent figures are vaingloriously bragging about heading to Washington to "take our government back" and undo everything Obama has enacted since he arrived in the Oval Office.
Why Barack Obama is looking good for a second term in 2012 Andrew Rawnsley 2010
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Once vaingloriously and eponymously named by the Pahlavi dynasty, it is now Vali-asr Boulevard, and it runs uphill to the very northern extremes of the city.
Tehran or Bust 2009
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Whatever, something flashed vaingloriously before his eyes.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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Whatever, something flashed vaingloriously before his eyes.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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These involve intellectual, scientific, and technological developments that shatter the illusory privilege, harmony, and coherence that human beings vaingloriously attempt to establish between themselves and the universe.
Steven Best - Minding the Animals: Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism William Harryman 2009
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Whatever, something flashed vaingloriously before his eyes.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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We are the ones who vaingloriously insist that we - but not others - must perpetually possess these weapons indefinitely into the future.
Tad Daley: Going Ballistic: The Race to Save LA from Nuclear Terror 2008
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Maybe it will take the justice system -- the one Nancy Grace so vaingloriously touts herself as the defender of -- to do what greedy network executives are unwilling to: force her off the air.
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