To be vainglorious means to excessively boast or brag about oneself, often in an attempt to gain admiration or attention from others. It involves an exaggerated sense of one's own abilities or achievements.

Hobbes does not have a good view on mankind. He thinks that mankind is selfish, cowardly and vainglorious.

This school athlete became even more vainglorious after winning this small race.

As a species, we give ourselves the rather vainglorious name Homo sapiens (wise man).