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vanity

Vanity is the feeling of being too proud about their actions, looks or possessions. Her vanity soon made the other girls very irritated. Something that is meaningless or pointless. She's trying very hard to get free parking, but I worry about the vanity of it all. A hand basin with a cupboard under it, usually found in a bathroom. The vanity was covered in bottles and jars of different cosmetics.

vanity

(= amour propre) feelings of excessive pride the quality of being valueless or futile he rejected the vanities of the world (= conceit) the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride (= dressing table) low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup

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Simple sentences

She has begun to play tennis not so much out of curiosity as out of vanity.
The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity.
The vanity plate I want is not available.
All is vanity.
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Only men of considerable vanity write books.
Above all, the vanity of many people seems so unbearable because it disturbs the vanity of others.
Laughter is the only cure against vanity, and vanity is the only laughable fault.
Her vanity knows no bounds.
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.
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
The desire for love to be mutual does not belong to love but to vanity.

Movie subtitles

It suggests profane vanity.
About the vanity of earthly things.
It's only a little hurt to his vanity.
Just feminine vanity.
I really should have told you before but the, the vanity of age, you know.
One vanity case.
It's an unfailing sign of vanity.
You'll never love him, but you'll let yourself be loved to please your vanity.
It offends my vanity to have anyone who was even remotely my wife remarry so obviously beneath her.
They say there's a very interesting musical show at the Vanity Fair, sir.
Of course, it may be just maternal vanity but I don't think Carol will find anyone nicer than Vin.
It might have been vanity.
Every artist has a certain amount of vanity.
You mean it pleases your disgusting feminine vanity to have him on a string.
Yes, she put it on her vanity.
Yvette Delys then heads back towards her dressing room. She walks down the same dark hallways to her brightly lit dressing room, where she'd left the money, the 15,000 f we talked about earlier, foolishly left on her vanity.
Come on, where's your vanity?
You've always mistaken your vanity for love.
What about the vanity case they sent me from that Chinese restaurant?
Selma, is that the vanity case they sent you?
You are so bad for my vanity.
It disturbed my vanity.
That's vanity.
Wouldn't hurt if you added that's from lack of time, not vanity.
Preserve your vaunted British vanity as best you may in this your hour of most humiliating defeat.
They say there's a very interesting musical show at the Vanity Fair, sir. Very comical, you know, sir. And very daring, if you follow my meaning, sir.
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
This girl hurt your vanity, that's all.
Vanity, darling.
Deliver us, we pray, from hankering after fleshpots. and deliver us from vanity and false pride.
They can be caught by a look, a smile, a compliment, anything that touches their vanity.
Female vanity.
Of course it was my vanity that made me think you'd recognize me today when yesterday was so very long ago.

News and current affairs

Despite the high-born image Eban projected, he was an extremely vulnerable person: what some occasionally discerned as traits of vanity may have had their origins in his humble origins.
Initiatives like Copenhagen's, however wonderful they sound, are ultimately little more than costly vanity projects.
It is vanity to think that anything can be done to prevent this.
As to corporate mergers, it remains to be seen how many are simply the vanity plays of bosses who do not face tough stockholder scrutiny.
But the vanity, greed, and perpetual scheming of the opposition's leaders has left them easy prey for Milosevic's schemes of divide-and-misrule.
But do Russians really want to tickle their vanity at the expense of the long-term interests of our economically devastated country?
A vanity press autobiography does not bring you to the top.
As young people consider themselves immortal, not even appeals to lifelong vanity, let alone warnings about cancer, are sufficient to deter them from the tanning booths.
Likewise, this month the magazine Vanity Fair published a hagiographic behind-the-scenes look at the steps that Obama and his team took in the run-up to the raid.
What is striking about No Easy Day and the Vanity Fair article is that the rationale for legal due process is reflected in every other paragraph.
Putin's extravagant vanity has severely undermined the strongman image that he has spent the last 12 years building.
While the Tsarnaev brothers may have objected to the supposed vanity of the secular state, there is another sense in which they might be right that Russia and the West are not so different from each other.

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