ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

not have a word to say for oneself; feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be
conscious of disgrace; drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs.
blush for, blush up to the eves; redden, change color; color up; hang one's head, look
foolish, feel small.
render humble; humble, humiliate; let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown
down; snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb; teach one his distance; put
down, take down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the shade
&c 874; stare out of countenance, put out of countenance; put to the blush; confuse,
ashame † , mortify, disgrace, crush; send away with a flea in one's ear.
get a setdown † .
Adj. humble, lowly, meek; modest &c 881; humble minded, sober-minded; unoffended † ;
submissive &c 725; servile, &c 886.
condescending; affable &c (courteous) 891.
humbled &c v.; bowed down, resigned; abashed, ashamed, dashed; out of
countenance; down in the mouth; down on one's knees, down on one's marrowbones,
down on one's uppers; humbled in the dust, browbeaten; chapfallen † , crestfallen;
dumfoundered † .
flabbergasted.
shorn of one's glory &c (disrepute) 874.
Adv. with downcast eyes, with bated breath, with bended knee; on all fours, on one's feet.
under correction, with due deference.
Phr. I am your obedient servant, I am your very humble servant; my service to you; da
locum melioribus [Lat.] [Terence]; parvum parva decent [Lat.] [Horace].
880. Vanity -- N. vanity; conceit, conceitedness; self-conceit, self-complacency, selfconfidence,
self-sufficiency, self-esteem, self-love, self-approbation, self-praise, selfglorification,
self-laudation, self-gratulation † , self-applause, self-admiration; amour
propre [Fr.]; selfishness &c 943.
airs, affected manner, pretensions, mannerism; egotism; priggism † , priggishness;
coxcombry, gaudery † , vainglory, elation; pride &c 878; ostentation &c 882; assurance &c
885.
vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.]; cheval de bataille [Fr.].
coxcomb &c 854; Sir Oracle &c 887.
V. be vain &c adj., be vain of; pique oneself &c (pride) 878; lay the flattering unction to
one's soul.
have too high an opinion of oneself, have an overweening opinion of oneself, have too
high an opinion of one's talents; blind oneself as to one's own merit; not think small beer
of oneself, not think vin ordinaire of oneself [Fr.]; put oneself forward; fish for
compliments; give oneself airs &c (assume) 885; boast &c 884.
render vain &c adj.; inspire with vanity &c n.; inflate, puff up, turn up, turn one's
head.
Adj. vain, vain as a peacock, proud as a peacock; conceited, overweening, pert, forward;
vainglorious, high-flown; ostentatious &c 882; puffed up, inflated, flushed.
self-satisfied, self-confident, self-sufficient, self-flattering, self-admiring, selfapplauding,
self-glorious, self-opinionated; entente &c (wrongheaded) 481; wise in one's