221 adjectives to describe vanity

"Now, messire," quoth the Pardoner, opening his wallet, "now in the matter of sinning, messire, an thou hast some pet and peculiar vice some little, pretty vanity, some secret, sweet transgression" "Nay, first," quoth Beltane, "'tis sure thou hast a tongue" "O infallibly, messire; a sweet tonguea tongue attuned to cunning phrases.

Ah, that such human butterflies would take warning by the fate of Herodias' daughter, and see how mere vanity will lead, if indulged too long and too freely, to awful crime.

There was something in that laugha ring of wounded vanity, the wounded vanity of a bad woman who is in the presence of her superior.

What a net he had spread around his own feet, by one act of foolish vanity!

He had never mistaken gratified vanity for dawning love, as millions of men do.

Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats and fishes, and society, and the cheerful glass, and candle-light, and fire-side conversations, and innocent vanities, and jests, and irony itselfdo these things go out with life?

Claude de Chauxville had unscrupulously made use of feminine vanity with all the skill that was his.

The gentleman provoked at his inordinate vanity, resolved not to indulge it, and with an exquisitely sly air of indifference answered, 'A mere trifle Sir, not worth repeating.'

Miss Crewys had never succumbed to the temptations of worldly vanity.

The Governors talked frankly, freely, earnestly of their States and for them, but it was ever with the honest pride of trusteeship, never the petty vanity of proprietorship.

His harmless vanity cleaved to him longer.

Joan Crawford (E); 9May55; R149155. Golden vanity.

The attitude, in any country, whatever it may be called, rests at bottom on sheer national vanity.

It was not pleasant to the gay leaders of Athenian society to hear the utter vanity of their worldly lives painted with such unsparing severity, nor was it pleasant to the Sophists and rhetoricians to see their idols overthrown, and they themselves exposed as false teachers and shallow pretenders.

The Athenians in their silly and cruel vanity had put to death two unfortunate Acarnanians, because these had accidentally strayed into their mysteries.

All of these who had anything in them, myself among others, quickly outgrew this boyish vanity; and those who had not, became tired of differing from other people, and gave up both the good and the bad part of the heterodox opinions they had for some time professed.

It was her love he wanted, and not her pity; it was to conquer her and possess her, and inform himself with her image, and her with his own; though as yet he did not know it; though the moment that she turned away he cursed himself for selfish vanity, and moroseness and conceit.

And yet he is equally rewarded for both, and the profession esteemed never the less worshipful; and therefore he accounts it a ridiculous vanity in any man to consider whether he does right or wrong in anything he attempts, since the success is only able to determine and satisfy the opinion of the world which is the one and which the other.

This is a sobering reflection for the proudest of our earthly vanities.

This orator was now in the height of his fame, and but for his excessive vanity and sentimentalism might have reached the foremost rank in the national councils.

She had a few pardonable vanities, which no arguments could overcomesuch as a little ostentation in dressa little pride in the neatness of her houseand a good deal in the beauty of her children, especially in that of Amabelas well as in the wealth and high character of her husband, whom she regarded as the most perfect of human beings.

Jealousy and outraged vanity flared up in him so that discretion vanished.

Offended vanity may blame me; power may frown at me, and pride may call my boldness arrogant, but still truth is truth, and I, bold in my unpretending humility, will proclaim that truth; I will proclaim it from land to land and from sea to sea; I will proclaim it with the faith of the martyrs of old, till the seed of my word falls upon the consciences of men.

The idle vanity of making an appearance, a vanity, by the way, that seldom besets gentlemen, or the class to which it may be thought more properly to belong, ruins hundreds of young men in England, and this poor creature was of the number.

We know his impulsiveness, his naïveté, his heady fits of wild passion, his spacious curiosity and quick grasp of detail, his portentous lack of humour and delicacy, his childish vanity and domineering will.

221 adjectives to describe  vanity