How to Use vainglorious in a Sentence

vainglorious

adjective

• In the mid- to late ’90s, a slew of vainglorious startups raised millions of dollars and plastered the beach with billboards.
  — Horacio Silva, Town & Country, 3 June 2021
• The corollary point is that Trump is the Mad King: volatile, vainglorious, and untrustworthy.
  — The Hive, 2 Feb. 2017
• And this is just four days’ worth of tweets, all vainglorious and self-injurious.
  — Charles Krauthammer, Orange County Register, 9 June 2017
• During his 20-minute border speech, Trump was the same vainglorious mess he’s always been.
  — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 12 Jan. 2021
• These young men have no vainglorious desire to kill themselves in the interests of space travel.
  — Joseph N. Bell, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2021
• The Thrombeys are a classically vainglorious clan of the white upper middle class.
  — Estelle Tang, Vogue, 4 Dec. 2019
• In the next four to eight years, American children will be born in a country led by a vainglorious man who wishes to fit facts—and their future—into the convenient shape of his ego.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2017
• The 62-year-old was brilliant, but also obsessive, vainglorious and prim.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• Booth shot Lincoln in 1865, and we have been caught in his vainglorious, paranoid, negationist riptide ever since.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2021
• No pro sports organization is more clandestine than the Raiders (Silver & Black Ops?), and yet none is more vainglorious.
  — John Walters, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2014
• But screeds against Qatar’s World Cup almost seem to cast the emirate’s authorities as vainglorious pharaohs, driving chattel to build their gleaming pyramids.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
• As early as his Eton and Oxford days, colleagues thought him vainglorious and untrustworthy.
  — Stephen Benedict Dyson, Washington Post, 3 July 2018
• The role is a wonderful showcase for Menzies, who sheds the petulance of his predecessor and brings us a Philip who is both prideful and impotent, vainglorious and deeply insecure.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• Turns out, his disappointment was of a slightly more vainglorious nature.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Jan. 2022
• Is Trump something other than a vainglorious, incurious and insecure businessman who now has the support of members of Congress who once reviled him?
  — John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Jan. 2018
• Inside the mind of Silicon Valley’s most vainglorious villain.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2020
• This cat — a vainglorious, labile, impulsively abusive bigot, in whom Bajram’s judgment and Bekim’s own worst fears combine — captivates Bekim.
  — TÉa Obreht, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2017
• Billionaires with rockets: a valiant attempt to send humanity to the final frontier, or a vainglorious battle between inflated egos?
  — David Vetter, Forbes, 5 July 2022
• Knowland’s insistence that boys be allowed to weigh arguments and information on the scales of their own intellect is nothing but an obstacle to the vainglorious egomaniac in the Head Master’s office.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 4 Dec. 2020
• But Beijing still views entertainment as a risky and vainglorious investment sector for local tycoons.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2017
• This kind of vainglorious self-regard disgusted Dickens.
  — The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
• Our first sign that something more than garden-variety reactionary insanity is going on here comes from noticing that these vainglorious yahoos keep executing the same captive over and over.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Oct. 2021
• The former soldier and schoolmaster is presented here as careless, petty, monomaniacal, vainglorious, technophobic and, worst of all, bored by the lovely people and landscapes of Tibet.
  — Michael O’Donnell, WSJ, 25 May 2022
• Alma lived for another sixty-two years, years of vainglorious strutting, scheming, and disloyalty, years chronicled by her own memoirs and by her later diaries (which have not been translated into English).
  — Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 7 Jan. 2020
• This is a strategy that must supersede any individual’s vainglorious pursuit of the presidency.
  — Adam Eichen, The New Republic, 27 Aug. 2019
• Societies of hunter-gatherers could be miserably hierarchical; some indigenous American groups, fattened on foraging and fishing, had vainglorious aristocrats, patronage relationships, and slavery.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Review of Books, 14 Jan. 2021

Last Updated: 12 Aug 2024