How to Use vainglorious in a Sentence

vainglorious

adjective

• And this is just four days’ worth of tweets, all vainglorious and self-injurious.
  — Charles Krauthammer, Orange County Register, 9 June 2017
• 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 tragedy is that reality does not care one iota for our vainglorious beliefs.
  — David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2023
• All but the most vainglorious architects imagine that their buildings will change in some small way after completion.
  — Anthony Paletta, Curbed, 2 Sep. 2025
• Turns out, his disappointment was of a slightly more vainglorious nature.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Jan. 2022
• The Thrombeys are a classically vainglorious clan of the white upper middle class.
  — Estelle Tang, Vogue, 4 Dec. 2019
• 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 62-year-old was brilliant, but also obsessive, vainglorious and prim.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• Saudi Arabia has, after all, seen the axis of resistance’s vainglorious and quixotic movie before.
  — Bernard Haykel, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2024
• The current policy of neglect about our laws is financially ruinous, and morally vainglorious.
  — The Editors, National Review, 14 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Booth shot Lincoln in 1865, and we have been caught in his vainglorious, paranoid, negationist riptide ever since.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2021
• But Beijing still views entertainment as a risky and vainglorious investment sector for local tycoons.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2017
• Inside the mind of Silicon Valley’s most vainglorious villain.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2020
• Claire’s elective death therefore remains a problematic choice for some viewers, an act of vainglorious selfishness from a woman who was never terribly nice to begin with.
  — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This is a strategy that must supersede any individual’s vainglorious pursuit of the presidency.
  — Adam Eichen, The New Republic, 27 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Here, too, in the Airfix models and the vainglorious LP collection is the solitary self-curation of the only child—the kid who can’t dash from his bedroom to a sibling’s, model or record in hand.
  — James Wood, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
• 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
• Daemon, Viserys’s vainglorious younger brother, had married his niece in part as a way to strengthen his own bid for the throne, and Alicent had pushed for the ascension of her immature firstborn, Aegon.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
• The attention to amusing detail is evident throughout, from the vainglorious mayor’s ample display of chest fur to the very long wintry outfit Gary De’Snake wears in snowy conditions.
  — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 25 Nov. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Having become frivolous, vainglorious, and suicidal, the Republican Party is on the verge of super-gluing itself to its risible liability of a perma-candidate for the eighth year in a row.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• 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