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382 lines
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{
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"vain":{
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"antonyms":[
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"egoless",
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"humble",
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"modest",
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"uncomplacent"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": foolish , silly":[],
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": having no real value : idle , worthless":[
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"vain pretensions"
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],
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": having or showing undue or excessive pride in one's appearance or achievements : conceited":[],
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": in an irreverent or blasphemous manner":[
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"Being a religion writer, I have always tried to avoid using the Lord's name in vain . I have not always succeeded.",
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"\u2014 Don Lattin"
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],
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": marked by futility or ineffectualness : unsuccessful , useless":[
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"vain efforts to escape"
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],
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": to no end : without success or result":[
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"her efforts were in vain"
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],
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"\u2014 see also take in vain":[
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"Being a religion writer, I have always tried to avoid using the Lord's name in vain . I have not always succeeded.",
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"\u2014 Don Lattin"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"For a half a century, scholars have searched in vain for the source of the jade that the early civilizations of the Americas prized above all else and fashioned into precious objects of worship, trade and adornment. \u2014 William J. Broad , New York Times , 22 May 2002",
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"\u2026 the miseries of people's lives ought not to be exploited ad libitum in the furtherance of our profits or our careers, and in the vain conviction that we understand everything. \u2014 Richard Taruskin , New Republic , 24 Dec. 2001",
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"It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. \u2014 Charlotte Bront\u00eb , Jane Eyre , 1847",
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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain . Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. \u2014 Jane Austen , Pride and Prejudice , 1813",
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"Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain \u2026 \u2014 William Shakespeare , King Richard the Second , 1596",
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"She is very vain about her appearance.",
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"He is the vainest man I know.",
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"A vain effort to quell the public's fears only made matters worse.",
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"Volunteers searched the area in the vain hope of finding clues.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Start making an effort to reach such a place -- your efforts shouldn't be in vain . \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 27 June 2022",
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"In a vain attempt to ward off further divine retribution, thousands of European men wandered from town to town as flagellants, whipping and scourging themselves in collective acts of expiation. \u2014 Niall Ferguson Bloomberg Opinion, Star Tribune , 31 July 2021",
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"My brother queried what our own dear parents may have taught us, but my only recollection is being told to stab the veggies rather than chasing them around the plate in a vain attempt to shovel them. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 June 2021",
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"Obama, this theory holds, naively waited for Republican support in Congress for his major initiatives and sacrificed Democratic priorities in a vain attempt to get it. \u2014 NBC news , 26 Apr. 2021",
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"California alone shuffled its presidential primary six times in 30 years in a vain attempt to enhance its influence. \u2014 Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times , 23 Mar. 2021",
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"Kevin Faulconer, the former mayor of San Diego and leading contender to oppose Newsom in a potential recall, slammed the governor's address as a vain attempt to salvage a floundering political career. \u2014 Carly Roman, Washington Examiner , 9 Mar. 2021",
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"The Chiefs got too handsy in a vain attempt to cover Tampa Bay\u2019s receivers, too jumpy on the line of scrimmage, too chippy when things didn\u2019t go their way. \u2014 Eddie Pells, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 Feb. 2021",
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"All this in a vain attempt to figure out if I had been injected with a placebo or the real thing. \u2014 John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 4 Dec. 2020"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English veyn \"empty, futile, groundless, foolish, excessively proud,\" borrowed from Anglo-French vain, vein , going back to Latin v\u0101nus \"lacking content, empty, illusory, marked by foolish or empty pride\" \u2014 more at wane entry 1":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8v\u0101n"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for vain futile , vain , fruitless mean producing no result. futile may connote completeness of failure or unwisdom of undertaking. resistance had proved so futile that surrender was the only choice left vain usually implies simple failure to achieve a desired result. a vain attempt to get the car started fruitless comes close to vain but often suggests long and arduous effort or severe disappointment. fruitless efforts to obtain a lasting peace",
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"synonyms":[
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"assured",
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"biggety",
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"biggity",
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"bigheaded",
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"complacent",
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"conceited",
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"consequential",
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"egoistic",
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"egoistical",
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"egotistic",
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"egotistical",
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"important",
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"overweening",
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"pompous",
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"prideful",
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"proud",
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"self-conceited",
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"self-important",
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"self-opinionated",
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"self-satisfied",
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"smug",
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"stuck-up",
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"swellheaded",
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"vainglorious"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-182120",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"vainglorious":{
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"antonyms":[
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"egoless",
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"humble",
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"modest",
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"uncomplacent"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": marked by vainglory : boastful":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"a vainglorious woman who always insists on being the center of attention",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"As a reward of sorts, Ma is dispatched to Vietnam for an ostensible vacation that\u2019s really a covert operation, accompanied by his alternately vainglorious and spluttering Captain (Choi Gwi-hwa). \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 3 June 2022",
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"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. \u2014 Michael O\u2019donnell, WSJ , 25 May 2022",
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"This kind of vainglorious self-regard disgusted Dickens. \u2014 The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022",
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"Turns out, his disappointment was of a slightly more vainglorious nature. \u2014 Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 Jan. 2022",
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"Roll your eyes at the ogre's vainglorious rhetoric. \u2014 William Falk, The Week , 21 Nov. 2021",
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"Societies of hunter-gatherers could be miserably hierarchical; some indigenous American groups, fattened on foraging and fishing, had vainglorious aristocrats, patronage relationships, and slavery. \u2014 Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Review of Books , 14 Jan. 2021",
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"Booth shot Lincoln in 1865, and we have been caught in his vainglorious , paranoid, negationist riptide ever since. \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 15 Nov. 2021",
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"Chinese police have arrested commentators who questioned the film\u2019s vainglorious portrayal of a military campaign where, by official counts, nearly 200,000 Chinese died, including 4,000 who froze to death at Lake Changjin. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Oct. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English vaynegloryous , from vaynglorie vainglory + -ous -ous , after Middle French vaneglorious and Medieval Latin v\u0101nigl\u014drius":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccv\u0101n-\u02c8gl\u022fr-\u0113-\u0259s"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"assured",
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"biggety",
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"biggity",
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"bigheaded",
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"complacent",
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"conceited",
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"consequential",
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"egoistic",
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"egoistical",
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"egotistic",
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"egotistical",
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"important",
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"overweening",
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"pompous",
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"prideful",
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"proud",
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"self-conceited",
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"self-important",
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"self-opinionated",
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"self-satisfied",
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"smug",
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"stuck-up",
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"swellheaded",
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"vain"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-014922",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"vaingloriousness":{
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"antonyms":[
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"egoless",
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"humble",
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"modest",
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"uncomplacent"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": marked by vainglory : boastful":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"a vainglorious woman who always insists on being the center of attention",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"As a reward of sorts, Ma is dispatched to Vietnam for an ostensible vacation that\u2019s really a covert operation, accompanied by his alternately vainglorious and spluttering Captain (Choi Gwi-hwa). \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 3 June 2022",
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"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. \u2014 Michael O\u2019donnell, WSJ , 25 May 2022",
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"This kind of vainglorious self-regard disgusted Dickens. \u2014 The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022",
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"Turns out, his disappointment was of a slightly more vainglorious nature. \u2014 Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 Jan. 2022",
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"Roll your eyes at the ogre's vainglorious rhetoric. \u2014 William Falk, The Week , 21 Nov. 2021",
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"Societies of hunter-gatherers could be miserably hierarchical; some indigenous American groups, fattened on foraging and fishing, had vainglorious aristocrats, patronage relationships, and slavery. \u2014 Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Review of Books , 14 Jan. 2021",
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"Booth shot Lincoln in 1865, and we have been caught in his vainglorious , paranoid, negationist riptide ever since. \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 15 Nov. 2021",
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"Chinese police have arrested commentators who questioned the film\u2019s vainglorious portrayal of a military campaign where, by official counts, nearly 200,000 Chinese died, including 4,000 who froze to death at Lake Changjin. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Oct. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English vaynegloryous , from vaynglorie vainglory + -ous -ous , after Middle French vaneglorious and Medieval Latin v\u0101nigl\u014drius":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccv\u0101n-\u02c8gl\u022fr-\u0113-\u0259s"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"assured",
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"biggety",
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"biggity",
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"bigheaded",
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"complacent",
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"conceited",
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"consequential",
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"egoistic",
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"egoistical",
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"egotistic",
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"egotistical",
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"important",
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"overweening",
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"pompous",
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"prideful",
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"proud",
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"self-conceited",
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"self-important",
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"self-opinionated",
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"self-satisfied",
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"smug",
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"stuck-up",
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"swellheaded",
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"vain"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-085141",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"vainglory":{
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"antonyms":[
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"humbleness",
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"humility",
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"modesty"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": excessive or ostentatious pride especially in one's achievements":[],
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": vain display or show : vanity":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"the vainglory that nations have historically shown after they have achieved military supremacy",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Behind closed doors, people are nervously voicing that the annual grandstanding on stage has shifted too much towards vainglory , rather than progress against staggering challenges. \u2014 Charles Beames, Forbes , 31 Aug. 2021",
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"Vidal gives wicked, witty renditions of the infighting, backstabbing and vainglory of such troublesome men as Gen. George B. McClellan, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase and John Wilkes Booth. \u2014 Katherine A. Powers, Star Tribune , 6 Nov. 2020",
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"Vidal gives wicked, witty renditions of the infighting, backstabbing and vainglory of such troublesome men as Gen. George B. McClellan, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase and John Wilkes Booth. \u2014 Katherine A. Powers, Star Tribune , 6 Nov. 2020",
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"Vidal gives wicked, witty renditions of the infighting, backstabbing and vainglory of such troublesome men as Gen. George B. McClellan, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase and John Wilkes Booth. \u2014 Katherine A. Powers, Star Tribune , 6 Nov. 2020",
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"Vidal gives wicked, witty renditions of the infighting, backstabbing and vainglory of such troublesome men as Gen. George B. McClellan, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase and John Wilkes Booth. \u2014 Katherine A. Powers, Star Tribune , 6 Nov. 2020",
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"Vidal gives wicked, witty renditions of the infighting, backstabbing and vainglory of such troublesome men as Gen. George B. McClellan, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase and John Wilkes Booth. \u2014 Katherine A. Powers, Star Tribune , 6 Nov. 2020",
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"Into what idiocies of optimism and vainglory might humanity collapse",
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"Well, specifically, the organization that will present the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards in a deep vat of vainglory on CBS at 8 p.m. Sunday, the Recording Academy. \u2014 Chuck Yarborough, cleveland , 24 Jan. 2020"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English vaynglorie , borrowed from Anglo-French veineglorie , from veine , feminine of vain, vein vain + glorie glory entry 1 , after Medieval Latin v\u0101na gl\u014dria":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8v\u0101n-\u02ccgl\u022fr-\u0113",
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"\u02ccv\u0101n-\u02c8gl\u022fr-\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"amour propre",
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"bighead",
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"complacence",
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"complacency",
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"conceit",
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"conceitedness",
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"ego",
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"egotism",
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"pomposity",
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"pompousness",
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"pride",
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"pridefulness",
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"self-admiration",
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"self-assumption",
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"self-conceit",
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"self-congratulation",
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"self-esteem",
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"self-glory",
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"self-importance",
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"self-love",
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"self-opinion",
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"self-satisfaction",
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"smugness",
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"swelled head",
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"swellheadedness",
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"vaingloriousness",
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"vainness",
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"vanity"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203520",
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"type":[
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]
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},
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"vainness":{
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"antonyms":[
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"egoless",
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"humble",
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"modest",
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"uncomplacent"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": foolish , silly":[],
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": having no real value : idle , worthless":[
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"vain pretensions"
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],
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": having or showing undue or excessive pride in one's appearance or achievements : conceited":[],
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": in an irreverent or blasphemous manner":[
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"Being a religion writer, I have always tried to avoid using the Lord's name in vain . I have not always succeeded.",
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"\u2014 Don Lattin"
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],
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": marked by futility or ineffectualness : unsuccessful , useless":[
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"vain efforts to escape"
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],
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": to no end : without success or result":[
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"her efforts were in vain"
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],
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"\u2014 see also take in vain":[
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"Being a religion writer, I have always tried to avoid using the Lord's name in vain . I have not always succeeded.",
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"\u2014 Don Lattin"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"For a half a century, scholars have searched in vain for the source of the jade that the early civilizations of the Americas prized above all else and fashioned into precious objects of worship, trade and adornment. \u2014 William J. Broad , New York Times , 22 May 2002",
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"\u2026 the miseries of people's lives ought not to be exploited ad libitum in the furtherance of our profits or our careers, and in the vain conviction that we understand everything. \u2014 Richard Taruskin , New Republic , 24 Dec. 2001",
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"It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. \u2014 Charlotte Bront\u00eb , Jane Eyre , 1847",
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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain . Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. \u2014 Jane Austen , Pride and Prejudice , 1813",
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"Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain \u2026 \u2014 William Shakespeare , King Richard the Second , 1596",
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"She is very vain about her appearance.",
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"He is the vainest man I know.",
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"A vain effort to quell the public's fears only made matters worse.",
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"Volunteers searched the area in the vain hope of finding clues.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Start making an effort to reach such a place -- your efforts shouldn't be in vain . \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 27 June 2022",
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"In a vain attempt to ward off further divine retribution, thousands of European men wandered from town to town as flagellants, whipping and scourging themselves in collective acts of expiation. \u2014 Niall Ferguson Bloomberg Opinion, Star Tribune , 31 July 2021",
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"My brother queried what our own dear parents may have taught us, but my only recollection is being told to stab the veggies rather than chasing them around the plate in a vain attempt to shovel them. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 June 2021",
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"Obama, this theory holds, naively waited for Republican support in Congress for his major initiatives and sacrificed Democratic priorities in a vain attempt to get it. \u2014 NBC news , 26 Apr. 2021",
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"California alone shuffled its presidential primary six times in 30 years in a vain attempt to enhance its influence. \u2014 Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times , 23 Mar. 2021",
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"Kevin Faulconer, the former mayor of San Diego and leading contender to oppose Newsom in a potential recall, slammed the governor's address as a vain attempt to salvage a floundering political career. \u2014 Carly Roman, Washington Examiner , 9 Mar. 2021",
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"The Chiefs got too handsy in a vain attempt to cover Tampa Bay\u2019s receivers, too jumpy on the line of scrimmage, too chippy when things didn\u2019t go their way. \u2014 Eddie Pells, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 Feb. 2021",
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"All this in a vain attempt to figure out if I had been injected with a placebo or the real thing. \u2014 John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 4 Dec. 2020"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English veyn \"empty, futile, groundless, foolish, excessively proud,\" borrowed from Anglo-French vain, vein , going back to Latin v\u0101nus \"lacking content, empty, illusory, marked by foolish or empty pride\" \u2014 more at wane entry 1":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8v\u0101n"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for vain futile , vain , fruitless mean producing no result. futile may connote completeness of failure or unwisdom of undertaking. resistance had proved so futile that surrender was the only choice left vain usually implies simple failure to achieve a desired result. a vain attempt to get the car started fruitless comes close to vain but often suggests long and arduous effort or severe disappointment. fruitless efforts to obtain a lasting peace",
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"synonyms":[
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"assured",
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"biggety",
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"biggity",
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"bigheaded",
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"complacent",
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"conceited",
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"consequential",
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"egoistic",
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"egoistical",
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"egotistic",
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"egotistical",
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"important",
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"overweening",
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"pompous",
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"prideful",
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"proud",
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"self-conceited",
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"self-important",
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"self-opinionated",
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"self-satisfied",
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"smug",
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"stuck-up",
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"swellheaded",
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"vainglorious"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-031908",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb",
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}
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} |