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Recent Examples of vainglorious Too many American leaders seem more focused on the vainglorious posturing that too often leads to armed conflict. Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 May 2025 Hwang’s vainglorious campaign underscores his later experience producing his next play, Face Value, and facing the death of his father, Henry Yuan Hwang (HYH), a patriotic immigrant and founder of Far East National Bank. Armond White, National Review, 21 May 2025 Ivy-as-Marilyn is an inconsiderate, amphetamine guzzling faux-intellectual whose devotion to the acting craft is presented as a vainglorious affectation. Greg Evans, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025 The name is meant to evoke Theodore Roosevelt’s vainglorious 1898 cavalry charge up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War. Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for vainglorious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vainglorious
Adjective
  • Bertha was right, George is being a jerk, and Larry needs to wipe that smug smile off his face.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
  • And no scripture condones the smug enjoyment of it.
    Hannah Sacks, People.com, 30 July 2025
Adjective
  • Depicting Americans as arrogant, loud, boorish and demeaning of other cultures, the term has stuck and is still mentioned 60-plus years later.
    Jenny Peters, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The most radical overhaul of the tax code in our state’s history would require voter approval in November 2026, and that starts by portraying local governments as cartoonishly arrogant, bloated and unaccountable.
    Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2025
Adjective
  • Next time, put your phone away, watch, and be proud.
    Janine Clements, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025
  • This is a proud program with a history of success, but Southern Miss has fallen on hard times, with four losing records in the last five seasons.
    Antonio Morales, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Beforehand, Quiet tries to comfort John and reassure him that Dollface’s death won’t be in vain.
    Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Needless to say, all these vain, privileged, self-promoting jerks are soon going to make CW’s acquaintance, then regret it — even as vengeful Madison zeroes in on that lady’s whereabouts.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Cena gets to show off his mane of hair while playing Peacemaker, the egotistical vigilante that made his debut in 2021's Suicide Squad and now leads the acclaimed HBO Max series also starring Danielle Brooks, Freddie Stroma, and Jennifer Holland.
    Mekishana Pierre, EW.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Such an obvious way to exhibit his egotistical personality.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 22 June 2025
Adjective
  • Jamie Demetriou, best known for his memorable performances in Fleabag and Stath Lets Flats, has been cast as the pompous and self-important distant relative who intends to marry one of the Bennet girls.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 30 July 2025
  • This self-important aging fart, going on and on about himself, his thoughts, feelings, emotions.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • This is the worst kind of football team: a conceited but objectively mediocre squad.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
  • Rory Kinnear steals some of the best lines as the conceited British prime minister, and Ato Essandoh, as Kate’s deputy chief, plays the ever-flustered man surrounded by extremely capable women with admirable humor, charm, and confidence.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Brands that create fabulous-looking but pompous and pretentious campaigns just feel inauthentic.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
  • Louis Partridge will take on Mr Darcy’s nemesis, Mr Wickham with Jamie Demetriou turning his hand to the pompous Mr Collins and Fiona Shaw as the fearsome Lady Catherine de Bourg.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 29 July 2025

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“Vainglorious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vainglorious. Accessed 23 Aug. 2025.

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