The charge of vanity is the last resource of little wits and mercenary quacks, the vainest men alive, against men and measures, that they can find no other objection to.
Man is thevainest of animals, and the poet is the vainest of men,” wrote Heine, who knew.
But although he was one of the vainest men living in certain respects, notably in the high estimate in which he always held his own capacity and mental qualities, still in other matters he was fairly modest.
Of course, as you may or may not know, our friend Moreno, although a very excellent fellow, is one of the vainest of men.
Frezeland Bantam is the vainest bird that attempts to crow; and by and by our feverish friend comes out into the light, and begins to trim his plumage!
The other species of minor biography, that of portraying our own character, could only have been invented by the most refined and the vainest nation.
This seems to hold in most Cases, and we may observe that the vainest Part of Mankind are the most addicted to this Passion.
I believe I then hinted at to you, proved thevainest crazy dream of but a moment--I feel what the strain and stress of the sequel that awaited me really became.
But Pan Stanislav attacked him: "I have seen many vain things; but knowest thou what seems to me vainest in thee and those like thee?
I lead the most stupid and the vainest life possible.
The vainest believed in virtue; the vilest respected it.
Rachel, meanwhile, was looking fixedly at Mr. Tristram from her bedroom window with that dispassionate scrutiny to avoid which the vainest would do well to take refuge in noisome caves.
No: the vainestof men and musicians had heard that he was ugly, and that his pianoforte-playing resembled the performance of a musical box.
What are the two typical names which stand revealed in history as the names of the two vainest men that ever lived?
What is the vanity of the vainest individual as compared with the vanity which the most modest person feels when he thinks of his position in nature and in the world as "Man!
Art thou that Beowulf with Breca did struggle, On the wide sea-currents at swimming contended, Where to humor your pride the ocean ye tried, 10 From vainest vaunting adventured your bodies In care of the waters?
It is the vainest of all inquiries from such a foregone conclusion.
But surely such projects, however idealistic, are the vainest fantasies.
Ramsay Macdonald: "To imagine the backward Indian labourers becoming a conscious regiment in the class war, seems to be one of the vainest dreams in which a Western mind can indulge.
It is just those who grope with the mole and cling with the bat who are vainest of their sight and of their wings.
For was he not the vainest man in the whole world?
I ventured the vainest efforts to reason with him, making for myself a very uncomfortable breakfast, though without effect upon him of any visibility.
One of the vainest men I ever met with," said the lawyer, musing.
I must be the vainest fool if I can flatter myself that, had I a hundred mistresses she would be ever jealous of any one of them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vainest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
