"mere" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The desire for such surgery ranges from that for the correction of obvious gross disfigurement to the merest vanity.
- Even Lucifer had a new scarlet silk neck-bow, which he considered mere vanity and vexation of spirit.
- In the face of this it would be hubris, mere vanity, to hold to her self-condemnation.
- Van Tromp's egotism, flown with drink, struck a pitch above mere vanity.
- But, later in the conversation, Martin foolishly admitted that he knew a great deal; perhaps he did this out of mere fatal vanity.
- This was no mere vanity; he had been tested many times, and had studied the records of the two hundred-K-range historical auras.
- Flandry didn't believe that mere wounded vanity spoke.
- And this is more than a blow to mere vanity, surely, since teeth set in living gums are now people's only tools.
- Is it that after an Oscar as best actor, he no longer has to bother with mere vanity?
- But it wasn't mere vanity that impelled me.
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