0 showing too much pride in your own abilities or achievements: --
It is a most just retribution against that vainglorious, war-liking nation.
In this case, he objected to his portrayal as a vainglorious coward and to the imitation of his voice.
One unsympathetic courtier calls him a vainglorious coxcomb though not to his face.
The spirit of these men is proud and springs from a consciousness that they are fighting not for some vainglorious victory but for simple social justice.
Canute was not a vainglorious and conceited man.
It was a strategic, vainglorious motive.
It was not a vainglorious enthusiasm.
If they do not do it, then all their speeches are so much vainglorious vote catching, and they will be denouncing themselves to their own constituents as humbugs.
