(superl.) Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.
(superl.) Destitute of forge or efficacy; effecting no purpose; fruitless; ineffectual; as, vain toil; a vain attempt.
(superl.) Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated.
(superl.) Showy; ostentatious.
(n.) Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase in vain.
Example Sentences:
(1) For example, if we purchase new examination equipment without any consideration or if we decide what type of equipment to introduce according to the common advice of the purchase committee of the hospital or the medical school, then we cannot design an ideal system of laboratory examinations and are forced to invest a large sum of money in vain.
(2) The George Bush campaign juggernaut hit the first serious pothole of its cash-fuelled drive to the presidency yesterday, as the Texas governor tried in vain to fend off questions about whether he had used cocaine as a young man.
(3) Full set list, show one (thanks to princevault.com ) Take Me With U (acoustic) Raspberry Beret (acoustic) U Got The Look (acoustic) Instrumental jam (acoustic) Train In Vain (acoustic) Q & A (1) incl.
(4) VaIN rarely is an isolated lesion and frequently is preceded by, or coexists with, other types of premalignant genital squamous neoplasia.
(5) He’s the kind of self-styled intellectual journalist in politics who caused so much trouble in 20th century politics, not a bad man, decent enough in his way, but not as smart as he thinks he is, vain with it.
(6) For long spells, West Ham searched in vain for inspiration as they tried to find a way past Newcastle United’s defence and end a run of three matches without a win.
(7) Further, in a vain attempt for a boost in the Hoosier State, Cruz unveiled former rival Carly Fiorina as his running mate if he receives the nomination and was able to cajole the state’s sitting governor, Mike Pence, into an endorsement.
(8) The next few days may well determine whether, this time, such loyalty will be in vain; but, while yearning for a clarion call and what was described as "vision" in this paper's leading article yesterday, I need to pose some pretty stark questions to Guardian readers.
(9) He aims to put his newspapers, including the Times and the Sun, behind a paywall, something described by the co-founder of Twitter, Biz Stone, as a vain attempt to "put the genie back in the bottle".
(10) In vain I argued that Robin Day seemed to wear the same jacket and shirt every week, and fled back to radio."
(11) Now I can feel that my son's blood wasn't totally lost in vain.
(12) In vain will Cameron plead that blame should lie with Brown and his Labour colleagues.
(13) At a media day held to mark the completion of the training and arranged before the tragedy, soldier after soldier came forward to insist that, though they were apprehensive, they were determined to do a good job, partly to make sure that their six colleagues had not died in vain.
(14) He somehow scrambled to deuce and delighted in forcing Dimitrov to chase in vain from one side of the court to the other to go 6-5 up.
(15) Assessment of patients between 9 and 99 (mean 55) months after partial colpectomy for VAIN showed no recurrence of disease in ten patients (83%).
(16) The scientific establishment struggled in vain to produce evidence that would reassure the public.
(17) No grieving wants to go through that, and our city doesn’t want to go through that.” Murphy said an accelerated program to equip Baltimore police officers with body cameras would mean Gray “did not die in vain”.
(18) His mother has said she tried in vain to get help for him.
(19) But he flailed in vain as the police officers grabbed him, one forcing his T-shirt roughly up over his head as three or four others laid in with their wooden batons, dragging and pushing him to a line of waiting Land Cruisers and more helmeted cops.
(20) As Steve spends half his money trying in vain to keep a scowl off Michelle's face and the rest comfort eating, Liz stumped up half the cash.
Vauntful
Definition:
(a.) Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious; boastful; vainglorious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite Facebook's size and reach, and its much-vaunted role in the short-lived Arab spring , there are reasons for thinking that Twitter may be the more important service for the future of the public sphere – that is, the space in which democracies conduct public discussion.
(2) But the squeeze on living standards also cited has been exacerbated by the chancellor's January VAT rise, and the Bank clearly sets little store by his much-vaunted "plan for growth".
(3) Those Lords resisting an elected chamber had better prove their vaunted independence by kicking up an almighty stink at being denied any voice in the main cuts legislation whizzing through Westminster.
(4) Well he didn’t and it’s not – and Clinton’s staff had better get to shoring up that vaunted Southern firewall before South Carolinians feel the Bern, too.
(5) The show stars Berry as a jobbing actor with vaunting ambition who gets into surreal scrapes, with a supporting cast including Doon Mackichan as his agent and Robert Bathurst as his housemate.
(6) Rather than identifying Americans’ easy and even vaunted access to firearms as a leading cause of mass shootings, gun rights advocates would rather blame gun violence on mental illness, bad parenting and other factors other than the cheap and easy availability of guns.
(7) News of the confrontation broke a day before the arrival of Xi Jinping , the Chinese president, in India, and has undermined official statements vaunting the goodwill between the two nations.
(8) Copé courted the party's right wing by vaunting the merits of an "uninhibited" UMP addressing subjects such as "anti-white racism".
(9) England were 10 points ahead in the third quarter and comfortably in control against opponents who had barely mounted a significant attack and whose vaunted defence was pulled apart with surprising ease at times.
(10) No amount of "investment pots" and "three-fold rises in apprenticeships" will make a difference to the much-vaunted growth and enterprise.
(11) The last Labour government received its wake-up call during the 2007-08 banking and commodity crisis, when global raw food prices doubled in months, as did oil, on which the much vaunted success of 20th century food policy depends.
(12) We have the opportunity to build a more resilient, sustainable economy provides a wide ranging number of policy and regulatory insights which will help lay the foundations of the much vaunted, slow to arrive, green economy.” Karl Harder from Abundance Generation said: “The Carbon Bubble is something the public must wake up to, and we must start divesting – fast if we are to avoid what could be the biggest financial crisis we have ever seen.
(13) The number of "City-type" jobs will finish the year at around 288,000 says the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr), a head count that would be on a par with 1998 and well below the peak of 354,000 seen 2007 which was the high water mark for the UK's once vaunted financial services sector.
(14) A high-profile glitch in ITV's much-vaunted FA Cup coverage - which meant that millions of viewers missed the winning goal in a Merseyside derby - may have been a transmission fault, but could all too easily be seen as symbolic of a broadcaster with its eye off the ball.
(15) That increase came despite the much-vaunted switch from coal to shale gas – with its lower emissions than coal when burned for energy – that has dominated the US's energy economy in recent years.
(16) Waddoup emphasised it is in fact the Russian middle class, not the much-vaunted oligarchs, who are driving the overseas property market.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Revenant director Alejandro González Iñárritu: ‘So much pain was implanted in that time’ – video interview The much-vaunted advance of streaming sites Netflix and Amazon looks also to have been thwarted, with neither of their much-touted films, Beasts of No Nation (Netflix) and Chi-Raq (Amazon) finding Oscar favour.
(18) Not even Mad Men, with its much-vaunted gorgeous wardrobe and much-interviewed costume designer Janie Bryant , has had any effect on how people actually dress.
(19) Despite the Australian government’s diversions, the rotation has much broader significance; it is a key node in America’s much vaunted “pivot to Asia”, a once-in-a-generation strategic shift through which the US seeks to maintain its regional military dominance in the face of a rising China.
(20) David Noble, chief executive officer at the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply said: "The much-vaunted march of the makers has finally materialised with the UK manufacturing sector's output growth hitting a 29-month high in July.