Crossword-Solution: VAINGLORIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Vainglorious | a. | Feeling or indicating vainglory; elated by vanity; boastful. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “VAINGLORIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Complacent | 19 answers |
| Egocentric | 23 answers |
| Snobbish | 30 answers |
| hubristic | 35 answers |
| Egotistical | 37 answers |
| narcissistic | 41 answers |
| Egotistic | 44 answers |
| Greater | 48 answers |
| Proud ___. | 49 answers |
| Domineering | 53 answers |
| overbearing | 54 answers |
| Boastful | 54 answers |
| smug | 56 answers |
| Higher | 65 answers |
| Conceited | 66 answers |
| Satisfied | 68 answers |
| Nonchalant | 72 answers |
| Lofty | 73 answers |
| Vain | 75 answers |
| BIG ___! | 98 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with VAINGLORIOUS (5)
There had been no sound of attack—none of the hideous war-cries or vainglorious waving of menacing spears that ordinarily marks the attack of savages—just a silent messenger of death from out of the silent forest.
They were all proud of him, in so far as the charge of being proud may be brought against people who were, habitually, distinctly guiltless of the misdemeanor known as “taking credit.” They never boasted of Robert Acton, nor indulged in vainglorious reference to him; they never quoted the clever things he had said, nor mentioned the generous things he had done.
Soft and warm and windless, lit by a vainglorious moon and every star that ever shone, the beauty of this world caressed and heartened its beholder like a gallant music.
Quick to the girl's memory sprang Mallory's recent declaration, which she had thought at the time but the empty, and vainglorious boasting of the man in love--“Why I'd die for you, Barbara, and welcome the chance!” “Poor boy! How soon, and how terribly has the chance come!” moaned the girl.
And as our Admirals were full of heroic superstitions, and had a strutting and vainglorious style of fight, so they discovered a startling eagerness for battle, and courted war like a mistress.
Quotes with VAINGLORIOUS (3)
Atheism is a conclusion reached by the most reasonable methods and one which is not asserted dogmatically but is explained in its every feature by the light of reason. The atheist does not boast of knowing in a vainglorious, empty sense. He understands by knowledge the most reasonable and clear and sound position one can take on the basis of all the evidence at hand. This evidence convinces him that theism is not true, and his logical position, then, is that of atheism. We re…
Hatred is about possession. It is all-consuming, cruel, and vainglorious. When love is allowed to fester, it becomes twisted and corrupt; it settles deep in the heart... and metastasizes, sending its dark roots through the body to raze all that stands in its way. Love is chaste and pure. Love is banal.... No, hatred has infinitely more possibilities.
But dying is no easy trick. And suicide can't be put on a list of Things To Do in between cleaning the grill pan and leveling the sofa leg with a brick. It is the decision not to do, to un-do; a kiss blown at oblivion. No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It is for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men.