Examples of vainglorious in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Saudi Arabia has, after all, seen the axis of resistance’s vainglorious and quixotic movie before. Bernard Haykel, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2024 Maximilian is often portrayed as a vainglorious buffoon, a quixotic old-school European aristocrat egged on by an ambitious wife. Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022 The tragedy is that reality does not care one iota for our vainglorious beliefs. David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2023 The current policy of neglect about our laws is financially ruinous, and morally vainglorious. The Editors, National Review, 14 Aug. 2023 See all Example Sentences for vainglorious 

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“Vainglorious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vainglorious. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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