Vanidad in english
Vanity
pronunciation: none part of speech: none
pronunciation: none part of speech: none
In gestures
vanidad = vanity ; self-importance ; conceit ; self-conceit ; pretension ; vainness.
Example: The reference librarian must always resist an impulse to be glib; he must scourge and throttle his vanity; he must reach a conclusion rather than begin with it.Example: Some people have a neurotic, exaggerated sense of self-importance and will nitpick and make a row over just everything in every shop or restaurant.Example: It's been hard to stomach the fool, with his conceit and his whining.Example: Man's self-conceit and love of power are the cause of most of his troubles, sins and vices.Example: He'd been popular earlier on but was now on thin ice with most members of our class due to his pretension and uppity manner.Example: For some you will look like the sad culmination of vainness while others will admire you and think you are the coolest thing since sliced bread.more:
» con vanidad = vainly .
Example: Despite efforts by cooler heads to save Rome from ruin, Commodus vainly declared himself a god and killed anyone who posed a threat to him.