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#*: Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is '''vain'''; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
# Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona|act=III|scene=i|passage=I will not hear thy '''vain''' excuse}}
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▲#* {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|book=2|passage='''Vain''' wisdom all, and false philosophy.}}
# Effecting no purpose; pointless, [[futile]].
#: {{ux|en|'''vain''' toil    a '''vain''' attempt}}
#* {{RQ:Dryden Aeneis|passage='''Vain''' is the force of man / To crush the pillars which the pile sustain.▼
▲#*: '''Vain''' is the force of man / To crush the pillars which the pile sustain.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1922|author={{w|Ben Travers}}
|chapter=6|title=[http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1521052W A Cuckoo in the Nest]
|passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' '''vain''' remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
# Showy; ostentatious.
#* {{RQ:Pope Works|volume=II|title=Epistle 4|lines=25–30|page=40|passage=Yet ſhall (my Lord) your juſt, your noble Rules / Fill half the land with imitating Fools: / VVho random dravvings from your ſheets ſhall take, / And of one beauty many blunders make; / Load ſome '''vain''' Church with old Theatric State, / Turn Arcs of Triumph to a Garden-gate, {{...}}}}
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