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feelings of excessive pride- Her conceit will be her downfall.
conceit = feelings of excessive pride
- Even misfortune didn't diminish her conceit.
- She is guilty of vanity, pride and conceit.
- You are getting to be rather conceited, my dear, and it is quite time you set about correcting it.Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
- They complained that he was conceited; and, since he excelled only in matters which to them were unimportant, they asked satirically what he had to be conceited about.W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
- I know you think me a shocking, conceited, frivolous girl; but then, you know, I don't attribute it ALL to my personal attractions: I give some praise to the hairdresser, and some to my exquisitely lovely dress...Anne Bronte -- Agnes Grey
- There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. I have heard people admit that they are bad-tempered, or that they cannot keep their heads about girls or drink, or even that they are cowards. I do not think I have ever heard anyone who was not a Christian accuse himself of this vice. And at the same time I have very seldom met anyone, who was not a Christian, who showed the slightest mercy to it in others. There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves. And the more we have it ourselves, the more we dislike it in others. The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility.C.S. Lewis -- Mere Christianity
- I gave him biscuits, while Vixen, who is a most conceited little dog, told him fibs about the scores of horses that she and I kept.Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book
- I disliked their laughter and their tears, their flattery and envy, conceit and deceit.Jean Rhys -- Wide Sargasso Sea
- Love is never boastful or conceited.Nicholas Sparks -- A Walk to Remember
- But he was in no danger of feeling conceited for he didn't think about it at all now that he was face to face with Aslan.C.S. Lewis -- The Magician's Nephew
- There was nothing conceited or braggartly about him.Ernest Hemingway -- The Sun Also Rises
- ...the reason she thought he was conceited was because he happened to mention to her that he was captain of the debating team.J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye
- And Jill was thinking, "He's the silliest, most conceited, selfish pig I've met for a long time."C.S. Lewis -- The Silver Chair
- And George, it's a fact— ever since you've been elected Captain, you've got awful stuck up and conceited, and all the girls say so.Thornton Wilder -- Our Town
- You're still a conceited little brat!Rick Riordan -- The Titan's Curse
- As he was, like many squirrels, full of courage and dash and energy and excitement and mischief (not to say conceit),C.S. Lewis -- Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
- I wouldn't mind him if he wasn't so conceited and...Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms
- His good looks and popularity had made him so inordinately conceited that they blinded him to that possibility.Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- There's no denying he's a little simple minded, and that makes him a little conceited.Franz Kafka -- The Trial
conceited = excessively proud of himself
conceit = excessive pride
conceited = excessively proud of oneself
conceited = excessive pride
conceited = excessively proud
conceited = too proud
conceited = excessively proud of himself
conceited = excessively proud of oneself
conceited = excessively proud of oneself
conceit = feelings of excessive pride
conceited = excessively proud
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