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    vanity


    1. No amount of money could have induced him to carry this out for idle curiosity or vanity


    2. It was a warm day and he had on a vanity t-shirt; a couple of sizes too small in order to show off all his predictable tats and steroid pecs


    3. It takes a certain kind of suffering to strip us of all the vanity that we so easily cling to


    4. We realize how much the vanity and entertainment actually got in the way of God instead of leading us to Him


    5. These powers influence and pressure mankind into further disobedience by a rejection of God and a filling of the void with useless vanity


    6. Kate said she understood completely; she kept wondering if she was guilty of vanity because she had thought the same thing


    7. Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense


    8. Surely God will not hear vanity; neither will the Almighty regard it


    9. He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail


    10. 9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou love all the days of the life of thy vanity, which

    11. he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this


    12. 2 “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity


    13. and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind


    14. and behold, this also was vanity


    15. do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under


    16. why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity


    17. vanity and a chasing after wind


    18. This also is vanity and a great evil


    19. This also is vanity


    20. This also is vanity and a striving after wind

    21. Surely this also is vanity and a


    22. satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity


    23. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind


    24. 11 For there are many words that create vanity


    25. 15 All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous


    26. vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens


    27. I said that this also is vanity


    28. you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all


    29. your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor


    30. All that comes is vanity

    31. for youth and the dawn of life are vanity


    32. a considerable streak of vanity (in the matter of wines,


    33. The vanity of rejecting the body


    34. The expensive vanity of the landlord made him willing to accept of this condition ; and hence the origin of long leases


    35. But where he can spend the greatest revenue upon his own person, he frequently has no bounds to his expense, because he frequently has no bounds to his vanity, or to his affection for his own person


    36. In that simple state, the expense even of a sovereign is not directed by the vanity which delights in the gaudy finery of a court, but is employed in bounty to his


    37. hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does


    38. They naturally, perhaps necessarily, follow the mode of the times ; and their expense comes to be regulated by the same extravagant vanity which directs that of all the other great proprietors in their dominions


    39. To see a vanity in your dream suggests that there is something that you need to prepare for


    40. I sometimes wonder just how we could have lost such promising soldiers to the kind of mad vanity we’re seeing now

    41. Such ceremonials are not only real taxes paid by the rich colonists upon those particular occasions, but they serve to introduce among them the habit of vanity and expense upon all other occasions


    42. Her Virtue is her strong Moral Sense, her Vice Vanity


    43. At the side was a man he immediately disliked the the look of – someone who clearly spent a lot of time at the gym and generally appeared to have a certain vanity about him, with his carefully styled hair


    44. the indolence and vanity of the rich is made to contribute, in a very easy manner, to the relief of the poor, by rendering cheaper the transportation of heavy goods to all the different parts of the country


    45. The proud minister of an ostentatious court, may frequently take pleasure in executing a work of splendour and magnificence, such as a great highway, which is frequently seen by the principal nobility, whose applauses not only flatter his vanity, but even contribute to support his interest at court


    46. The clergy, too, like the great barons, wished to get a better rent from their landed estates, in order to spend it, in the same manner, upon the gratification of their own private vanity and folly


    47. On the contrary, they were provoked and disgusted by the vanity, luxury, and expense of the richer clergy, who appeared to spend upon their own pleasures what had always before been regarded as the patrimony of the poor


    48. The vices of levity and vanity necessarily render him ridiculous, and are, besides, almost as ruinous to him as they are to the common people


    49. What would Raiya think of the man then? It would not suit Roidon’s vanity, for sure, even if it did serve as a metaphor made literal


    50. A man of a large revenue, whatever may be his profession, thinks he ought to live like other men of large revenues; and to spend a great part of his time in festivity, in vanity, and in dissipation













































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    Synonyms for "vanity"

    dresser dressing table toilet table vanity conceit conceitedness emptiness amour propre self-love uselessness sham folly hollowness idleness triviality vainglory pretension narcissism self-esteem

    "vanity" definitions

    feelings of excessive pride


    the quality of being valueless or futile


    the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride


    low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup