Words similar to vain

Example sentences for: vain

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Train in Vain
Culturebox knows from having once casually tossed the words "Final Solution" into some light German cocktail banter that, in Germany, you don't invoke a name like Speer's in vain.
But in both stores, one is similarly invited to live out vain fantasies about who one is, or should be.
Monuments and museums show how the buffalo-hunting Métis, the descendants of Indians and French fur traders, struggled in vain against Anglo farmers from Ontario, themselves subsequently relayed by waves of Eastern European immigrants brought in to exploit the grain wealth of the prairies.
cat whipping or whipping the cat a trick often practised on ignorant country fellows, vain of their strength: a wager is laid with them that they may be pulled through a pond by a cat.