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vanity

/van-i-tee/US // ˈvæn ɪ ti //UK // (ˈvænɪtɪ) //

虚荣心,虚幻性,虚荣,虚荣心强

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    plural van·i·ties.

    • : excessive pride in one's appearance, qualities, abilities, achievements, etc.; character or quality of being vain; conceit: Failure to be elected was a great blow to his vanity.
    • : an instance or display of this quality or feeling.
    • : something about which one is vain or excessively proud: His good looks are his greatest vanity.
    • : lack of real value; hollowness; worthlessness: the vanity of a selfish life.
    • : something worthless, trivial, or pointless.
    • : vanity case.
    • : dressing table.
    • : a wide, counterlike shelf containing a wash basin, as in the bathroom of a hotel or residence, often equipped with shelves, drawers, etc., underneath.
    • : a cabinet built below or around a bathroom sink, primarily to hide exposed pipes.
    • : compact.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : produced as a showcase for one's own talents, especially as a writer, actor, singer, or composer: surprisingly entertaining for a vanity production.
    • : of, relating to, or issued by a vanity press: a spate of vanity books.

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Examples

  • As the high prices indicate, expect these first electric trucks to serve primarily as vanity vehicles for people who own more than one car.

  • Live streams are among the few remaining platforms that don’t push curation and vanity but rather thrive on the opposite—authenticity.

  • The Home Depot listing says this vanity is made of particleboard with a front of natural wood, but there aren’t any details about what kind of paint and primer the manufacturer used.

  • Follower counts are more than just a vanity metric when it comes to influencer marketing.

  • You’ll finally be able to find the bottom of your vanity and maybe even locate that one earring you lost two years ago.

  • Vicky Ward was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair for 11 years.

  • In a hot-button cover story interview with Vanity Fair, Lawrence explained it best.

  • The book, surprisingly, is not the self-aggrandizing vanity trip of a preening pop star one would expect.

  • In an interview with Vanity Fair, Diez said he married the duchess for love, not money.

  • “What The Little Mermaid Taught Us About Being Grown-Ups,” Vanity Fair commemorated in a GIF-laden post.

  • Greater mischiefs happen often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

  • I, therefore, deliver it as a maxim, that whoever desires the character of a proud man ought to conceal his vanity.

  • If I am proof against my own heart, in so dear a cause, shall I not be proof against the poor allurements of vanity and sense?

  • She was as incapable of jealousy as of aching vanity in the fact of a son whom the world was never permitted to forget.

  • Her youthful vanity had its way in a mind too speculative, intelligent, observant, merely to be shocked.