vainglorious
excessively boastful and vain about one's achievements
Vainglorious in a sentence
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His vainglorious account of the battle inflated his own minor role.
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to waver indecisively between options or opinions
the inability to decide between different courses of action; wavering
total absence of thought, ideas, or substance
empty of meaning, substance, or intelligence
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an unpredictable or capricious change or notion
a person who wanders without a settled home or work
excessive, ostentatious pride in oneself or one's achievements
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