189 Verbs to Use for the Word vanity

The slightest interest, practically even common civility, shown him by anyone of the feminine sex between the ages of sixteen and sixty, flattered his vanity to such an extraordinary extent that he immediately thought these ladies were in love with him, and it didn't take much more for him to be in love with them.

The Sovereign had done me the unusual, but not wholly unprecedented, favour of selecting half a dozen of the fairest maidens of those waiting their fate in the Nurseries of his empire; had proffered on my behoof terms which satisfied their ambition, gratified their vanity, and would have induced them to accept any suitor so recommended, without the insignificant formality of a personal courtship.

Millions in value pass out of these streets, that go to feed the vanity of those who fancy themselves wealthy, because they hold some ideal pledges for the payment of advances in price like those mentioned by the auctioneer, and which have some such security for the eventual payment, as one can find in calling a thing, that is really worth a dollar, worth a hundred.

and in part, of course, by tickling the vanity of living snobs?

A severe criticism of the volume in the Edinburgh Review wounded Byron's vanity, and threw him into a violent passion, the result of which was the now famous satire called English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, in which not only his enemies, but also Scott, Wordsworth, and nearly all the literary men of his day, were satirized in heroic couplets after the manner of Pope's Dunciad.

I should have smiled, of course, at the idea of the ghost at all, but then to feel that it was mine would have pleased my vanity.

" "And I am not such a fool, M. de Chauxville, as to allow myself to be dragged into a vulgar intrigue, borrowed from a French novel, to satisfy your vanity.

It is a cruel thing for a mother to sacrifice her child's health that she may indulge her own vanity, and yet how often is this done in reference to sleep.

Nothing positively controversial is taught; that is to say, no contemptuous expressions about the religion of any of the children are allowed, and the plainest truths of the Gospel specially set forward; but occasionally something comes into the lesson which shows to an intelligent learner the vanity of the superstitions around them."

She began to realise the sentiment of her ancestor, the good Lord Brodie:"God can make use of poison to expel poison: in London I saw much vanity, lightness, and wantonness."

But Pécour felt all the vanity of a successful rival and was good natured.

Then the miracle, Mathieu's extraordinary victory, had long hurt people's vanity and thereby increased their anger.

Of course, riches were sought above everything, since these furnished the means of gratifying those pleasures which were most valued, or stimulating that vanity whose essence is self-idolatry.

He made the best executor in the world: he was plagued with incessant executorships accordingly, which excited his spleen and soothed his vanity in equal ratios.

Next to personal conversation with the Writers themselves, this is the surest way of coming at their sense; a compendious and engaging kind of Criticism which convinces at first sight, and shews the vanity of conjectures made by Antiquaries at a distance.

She observed in his manner something new!a positive enthusiasm for his three retainers, which included a certain well-relished vanity in their loyalty and character.

Her disdain piqued his vanity, while it produced the excitement of difficulties to be overcome.

This tableaux, ladies and gentlemen, in the production of which we have spared no trouble and expense, teaches the vanity of human greatness.

What vanity he displayed before the Queen of Sheba!

The old-timer knew West's vanity and his weakness for women.

Granting that love is the result of reflection, do you not see what a blow you are giving their vanity?

How it would mortify my vanity, if I thought there was a woman in the world, much more this, that could hate me!

De Chauxville was vain, but he was clever enough to conceal his vanity.

" "Wretch!" exclaimed the priest indignantly, "thy mercenary demand alone proves the vanity of thy pretence of being initiated into the secrets of the Gods.

They cared not so much as to look upon them; and if they called upon them to buy, they would put their fingers in their ears, and cry, "Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity," and look upward, signifying that their trade and traffic was in heaven.

189 Verbs to Use for the Word  vanity