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vanity

vanity
Zelfstandig naamwoord
  • tafel waaraan je je toilet maakt
  • low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup

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vanity
Zelfstandig naamwoord
    • feelings of excessive pride

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    vanity
    Zelfstandig naamwoord
    • zelfvoldoening
    • the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride

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    vanity
    Zelfstandig naamwoord
      • the quality of being valueless or futile

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      Voorbeeldzinnen

      1. Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
      2. All is vanity.
      3. I can't find my vanity case.
      4. A man's vanity is his tenderest spot.
      5. Laughter is the only cure against vanity, and vanity is the only laughable fault.
      6. There is, perhaps, not one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as vanity.
      7. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.
      8. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
      9. It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.
      10. All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
      11. How many men are there that wear a coat that cost a hundred francs, and carry a diamond in the head of their cane, and dine for twenty-five SOUS for all that! It seems as though we could never pay enough for the pleasures of vanity.
      12. Vanity kits
      13. Trunks, suitcases, vanity cases, executive-cases, briefcases, school satchels and similar containers
      14. Trunks, suitcases, vanity cases, executive-cases, briefcases, school satchels and similar containers:
      15. Trunks, suitcases, vanity-cases, briefcases, school satchels and similar containers of leather, composition leather, patent leather, plastics, textile materials, aluminium or other materials