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• Like all internetty things, this type of intelligence plays to the viewer's vanities and prejudices.2019 April 24, Jay Caspian Kang, “How Pete Buttigieg's Meaningless Erudition Made Him the 'Smart' Candidate”, in The New York Times…. From the entry internetty
• Upon his return he killed Eriphyle for her vanity and deceit of him and his father.1998, Mike Dixon-Kennedy, Encyclopedia of Greco-Roman Mythology, page 125. From the entry deceit
• Our nation has experienced a bonfire of the vanities based on the greed of the high establishment.1991, Proceedings of the AFL-CIO Convention, page 196. From the entry bonfire of the vanities
• “‘Ladies, do not enter the literary profession out of mere vanity or caprice.1913, “Chapter XXVII. Women and Literature”, in Winifred Stephens, transl., Madeleine at Her Mirror: A Woman’s Diary, translation of…. From the entry scribbleress
• Bart Groothuijze, who runs the Castodian foundation promoting safer motorbiking, blames a misplaced sense of freedom and vanity.2024 June 16, Senay Boztas, “‘The brain is very vulnerable’: Dutch cyclists urged to wear helmets as road deaths rise”, in The Guardian. From the entry misplace
• His permatan, and his vanity, were his weakness.2008, Alex Cole, Resistance. From the entry permatan
• She called my vanity license plate inscrutable!2007 October 11, Robert Carlock, “Jack Gets in the Game”, in 30 Rock, season 2, episode 2, spoken by Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan). From the entry inscrutable
• But no sooner had I got the hang of it than those treadless vanity boots shot out from under me.1999, Lisa Michaels, Split: A Counterculture Childhood, page 73. From the entry treadless
• The hypereminent gentleman who pampers his vanity by ignoring collections is not a good citizen in the profession.1917, Kansas Medical Society, The Journal of the Kansas Medical Society 1917-08: Volume 17 Issue 8, Kansas Medical Society, page 219. From the entry hypereminent
• Since then I've seen it as my duty to warn naive writers of the dangers of the fee-charging agents and the pay-to-play vanity presses.2006 June 30, James D. Macdonald, “Yog's Law”, in SFF Net, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2006. From the entry Yog's Law
• Below B, a GG normally would use breast enhancers--not entirely for vanity, but so that the dress will drape properly in front.2003, Michel, “dress size”, in alt.fashion.crossdressing (Usenet). From the entry C-cupper
• I have a friend whose white Volvo bears the plate SNOLPRD (pronounced "SnowMeow"), I have never done the vanity plate thing myself tho.1997, Dale Farmer, alt.fan.furry (Usenet). From the entry snowmeow
• A bonfire of the vanities indeed.1993 September, Auberon Waugh, “Talk and Tattle”, in Spy, page 50. From the entry bonfire of the vanities
• The aboriginal women are true-bred sisters of Eve, just as modern in their tantrums and loves and jealousies and vanities as their white sisters.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 158. From the entry sister of Eve
• Labour's Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh said: "There is a cost-of-living crisis, and the Prime Minister blew nearly £1m of public money on an utterly infeasible vanity project.2022 February 9, “Network News: Prime Minister "blew nearly £1m" on Northern Ireland bridge study”, in RAIL, number 950, page 20. From the entry pothole
• Sir Abercrombie is the Nero Wolfe of Snowdonia; his vanities and obsessions focus not on food, orchids, and English language usage, but on Shakespeare quotations for all occasions.2016, Marjorie Garber, The Muses on Their Lunch Hour, Fordham University Press, page 119. From the entry Nero Wolfe
• He believed that the fundamental physical law of life was motion and that the predominant human impulses were fear and, among those above the poverty level, pride and vanity.2008, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., The Ideas that Made the Modern World, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., page 174. From the entry physical law
• Vanity Fair won in the profile-writing category for a piece by Evan Wright on Pat Dollard, a onetime Hollywood agent who went to Iraq to make a prowar documentary.2008 May 2, Richard Pez-Pe, “National Geographic Wins 3 Awards, Honored Beyond Photography”, in New York Times. From the entry prowar
• As in Goethe's description of the lighthearted kind of resignation in Poetry and Truth, the end result of light-heartedness is the "blasphemous" implied conclusion that "all is vanity."1993, Julie D. Prandi, "Dare to be Happy!": A Study of Goethe's Ethics, →ISBN, page 187. From the entry light-heartedness
• There is, I suppose, the cheap drama of man sticking his nose into an area where it does little good except to expand his already overweened vanity.1987 October, Field & Stream, volume 92, number 6, page 24. From the entry overween
• We admire the intellect, as indeed we should, and admire all sorts of other endeavors but when the area of physicalness comes, it's reduced to vanity.1977 April 30, David Holland, John Rechy, “The Politics of 'The Sexual Outlaw'”, in Gay Community News, page 9. From the entry physicalness
• Restraint of the organs of sense, on which success in study and discipline depends, can be enforced by abandoning lust, anger, greed, vanity (māna), haughtiness (mada) and overjoy (harṣa).1963, B. A. Saletore, Ancient Indian Political Thought and Institutions, Asia Publishing House, page 318. From the entry overjoy
• Experts in matters analytic speak of Napoleon as a narcist, but he was too much more than that to be measured in the cup of mere vanity.1936, Florence Guy Seabury, Love is a Challenge. From the entry narcist
• I was perturbed by the suspicion that the anguish of love contemned was alloyed in her broken heart with the pangs, sordid to my young mind, of wounded vanity.1919, W. Somerset Maugham, “11”, in The Moon and Sixpence. From the entry contemn
• First there's the Grimshaw o' greed--swinish, heartless greed--the other is the Grimshaw o' vanity--the strutter, with sword at belt, who would have men bow or flee before him."1917, Irving Bacheller, The Light in the Clearing. From the entry strutter
• This scarcity of review books, coupled with an unknown and unadvertising publisher strengthened the growing rumor that the book was a piece of vanity publication, a book to let alone.1992, Mari Sandoz, Helen Winter Stauffer, Letters of Mari Sandoz, page 355. From the entry unadvertising
• His culminating vision is a pseudoenlightenment, contaminated by his unaltered egoism: "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity" (35; emphasis mine).1991, Thomas Jackson Rice, “The Geometry of Meaning in Dubliners: A Euclidian Approach”, in Style, volume 25, number 1, DeKalb, I.L.…. From the entry pseudoenlightenment
• That's what college ought to be for, instead of for turning out a lot of B.A.s, so chock full of book-learning and vanity that there ain't room for anything else.1909 September, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “A Wedding at the Stone House”, in Anne of Avonlea, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page &…. From the entry B.A.

Meaning of vanity

1. noun That which is vain, futile, or worthless; that which is of no value, use or profit.
2. noun Excessive pride in or admiration of one's own abilities, appearance, achievements, or possessions.
3. noun A dressing table used to apply makeup, preen, and coif hair, in which the table is normally quite low and similar to a desk.

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Questions about vanity in a sentence

How do you use vanity in a sentence?

Vanity is used as a noun. For example: “It is a vanity to say that if two stones are dropped from a tower, the heavier will experience the greater acceleration.”

What is a short sentence with vanity?

“A bonfire of the vanities indeed.”

What does vanity mean?

Vanity means that which is vain, futile, or worthless; that which is of no value, use or profit.