vainglorious

characterized by or exhibiting excessive vanity; boastful


This word appears in a recent New Yorker magazine: “Saddam was alive, in good health, his hair dyed black, his suit respectable; and he was permitted to address the court with the vainglorious defiance of the President he still believes himself to be”.

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