Adjective, : a vain dandy. ,vain remarks. ,a vain effort. ,vain pageantry; vain display.    From Dictionary.com. 

O the vainness, and the frailties, and the foolishness of men!.    From Wordnik.com.  [There but for the Grace of God…? | Mind on Fire] Reference

"If only we could have a cup of good hot coffee first, before we start," said Beth, and she smiled at the vainness of the thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Furnace of Gold] Reference

The vainness of self-worship, and the waste of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alcyone] Reference

There's a vainness to both of them that plays joker to their inner lovers-of-good-inner-qualities.    From Wordnik.com.  [AnimeBlogger.net Antenna] Reference

His was a curious temperament, and this sentimentality, born of vainness and idle hours, by no means expressed it all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch] Reference

This "in-vainness" is that about which Aristotle worried might be the danger if there were no order in things, including human things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Claremont.org] Reference

It was as though the love letter of Juliet had led her here to show her as in a glass darkly the vainness of love in the vainness of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Girl] Reference

It was become such a world as did not seem worth a man's while to live in: a world of vainness, of hollowness, of meanness, of nothing but illusions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...] Reference

To descend to those extreme anxieties and foolish cavils of grammarians, is able to break a wit in pieces, being a work of manifold misery and vainness, to be elementarii senes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems] Reference

No wonder Moore wanted his name off this thing; it renders his most interesting themes - the vainness of heroism, the absoluteness of power corrupting, the historically possible doomsday - only glibly, with cartoonish brutality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Springs Independent] Reference

Among the Carmelites are rich and pretty women who have lived in the world and left it, wholly convinced of the vainness of its joys; and these nuns, who evidently know nothing, have had an intuition of that vacuity which it has needed years of experience for the others to gain.    From Wordnik.com.  [En Route] Reference

But he was so delightfully fresh and honest, and yet so clever withal, that her eyes sparkled with anticipating mirth as she saw him in various attitudes of awkward love-making, and then dropping helplessly into the abyss of his own great, but empty heart, on learning the vainness of his passion.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Jest to Earnest] Reference

Jochanan Hakka-dosh, the saintly prop of Israel, expounds from his deathbed a gospel of struggle and endurance in which a troubled echo of the great strain of Ben Ezra may no doubt be heard; but his career is, as a whole, a half-sad, half-humorous commentary on the vainness of striving to extend the iron frontiers of mortality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Browning] Reference

Add: farce, folly, futility, vainness, childishness, ludicrousness; yes, keep adding ‘...ys & ‘esses to inevitably culminate in insanity & uselessness!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Inanity] Reference

For while they speak of the vainness and fickleness of oaths, as an objection against our project, they little consider that this fickleness and vainness is the common practice among all the people of this sublunary world; and that consequently, instead of being an objection against the project, is a concluding argument of the constancy and solidity of their sure gain by it; a never-failing argument, as he tells us, among the brethren of his cloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish] Reference

Less vainness, more work?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama-Sarkozy: The War of the Worlds] Reference

Out of vainness, I hope it is not the first.    From Wordnik.com.  ["And when the captured British sailor admits she 'trespassed' into Iranian waters, there is fear in her eyes."] Reference

The vainness of its joys, the mockery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Light of Asia] Reference

Being free from vainness and self-glorious pride.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference

Being free from vainness and self-glorious pride.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of King Henry V] Reference

To your own lies and vainness. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two plays: Mantuan revels, a comedy, in five acts; Henry the Seventh, an historical tragedy, in five acts] Reference

Than lying, vainness, babbling drunkenness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act III. Scene IV. Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will] Reference

Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe] Reference