vain
虚荣,虚荣心,徒劳,徒劳的
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Definitions
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vain·er, vain·est.
- : excessively proud of or concerned about one's own appearance, qualities, achievements, etc.; conceited: a vain dandy.
- : proceeding from or showing pride in or concern about one's appearance, qualities, etc.; resulting from or displaying vanity: He made some vain remarks about his accomplishments.
- : ineffectual or unsuccessful; futile: vain hopes; a vain effort; a vain war.
- : without real significance, value, or importance; baseless or worthless: vain pageantry; vain display.
- : Archaic. senseless or foolish.
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Examples
Looming over all of this are Sirhan’s supporters who say he did not shoot Kennedy, and who have raised that issue in vain both in the California courts and in parole hearings.
It seems like everything was in vain, everything we have done.
We still struggled—often in vain—for meaningful inclusion in policy, science, news and entertainment relating to our lives.
Everything that happened, in my opinion, was in vain because nothing about the situation changed.
That year, his mother had tried in vain to procure a special education plan for him.
Asserting our right to free speech is the only to ensure that 12 people did not die in vain.
In vain, fishermen waited for the sea to come back: there were no fish, there was no money for their families.
In many engagements volunteers asked regular army commanders for support, transport and ammunition, but often in vain.
Faulkner, Whitman, and Dickinson did not labor in vain; their books live on, horizontally, stacked like bricks in a display case.
Fonda tried in vain to convince Jarrow and Archer to ditch the project.
Vain also was the valour and ability he showed in the campaign against the Royalists in La Vende.