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• n  outspoken conceit

• Such blithe vainglory as this might be fatuous if it were not the utterance of a man who is, in his field, an indisputable genius.
• Author Sinclair, at a leathery 77, says this in no spirit of vainglory, but in simple wonder that other literary men should have written less.
• Too late to save himself, Jeremiah realizes how much of his downfall was due to a "black need within me," some inescapable core of evil which led him to seek power and vainglory in .

• boastfulness

Quotes

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• John Paul in Zenit News Agency
  Do nothing out of selfishness or vainglory,St. Paul wrote, "but humbly regard others as superior to you."
• Edward Luttwak in Center for Research on Globalization
  You don't need to solve the problem of Iran, you just need to delay the mullahs for a few years, expose their vainglory and hope that the Iranians, most of whom hate this regime, will get rid of them,Luttwak said.