Sad and Vain

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Sad

Sad adjective - Feeling unhappiness.
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Vain and sad are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Vain" instead an adjective "Sad".
Nearby Words: sadness, sadly

Vain

Vain adjective - Having too high an opinion of oneself.
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Sad and vain are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Sad" instead an adjective "Vain".
Nearby Words: vainly, vainness

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  • Video Game / God of War Series Zeus gets one in the third game, when Pandora seems to have sacrificed herself in vain and Kratos becomes all sad.
    Source: Video Game / God of War Series
  • At the end of the chapter comes the extinction of the dinosaurs: the sad music plays and the camera pans slowly by all the dead dinosaurs as the meteors fall and finally stops on the mother who died in vain trying to shield her baby with her tail.
    Source: Player Punch / Role-Playing Games
  • Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas In the Carl Barks story "The Money Champ", Flintheart Glomgold is sad for having betrayed his mother's hopes when he used crooked means on his efforts to become the world's richest duck and feels he must get the title so this betrayal won't be in vain.
    Source: Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
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