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conceit as in: confident, but not conceited
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Her conceit will be her downfall.conceit = excessive pride
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Even misfortune didn't diminish her conceit.
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She is guilty of vanity, pride and conceit.
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Love is never boastful or conceited. (source)conceited = excessively proud of oneself
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You're still a conceited little brat! (source)
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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. (source)conceited = excessive pride
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I disliked their laughter and their tears, their flattery and envy, conceit and deceit. (source)conceit = excessive pride
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...the reason she thought he was conceited was because he happened to mention to her that he was captain of the debating team. (source)conceited = too proud
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You saw, too, the latest conceits in accessories: charming little hand bags; billowing evening capes of which there were many smart versions to accent colour schemes; luxurious wraps and capelets in fur.† (source)
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And, for some reason, I really am known all over the market," Kolya added conceitedly.† (source)
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and you are not deaf!" returned the other with a slight air of contempt; "no, lad, no; they may be good to see across a church, or to hear a town-bell, but afore you had passed a year in these prairies you would find yourself taking a turkey for a buffaloe, or conceiting, fifty times, that the roar of a buffaloe bull was the thunder of the Lord!† (source)
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He could spin you out upon a conceit until you were choking with laughter.† (source)conceit = excessive pride
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I wouldn't mind him if he wasn't so conceited and... (source)conceited = excessively proud
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I was never remiss in poisoning Alejandra's mind against the conceits of the sorts of suitors available to her and we have both long been willing to entertain the notion of rescue arriving in whatever garb it chose.† (source)
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"Good!" said Mr. Pumblechook conceitedly.† (source)
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This apparent conceit, Mortati knew, had nothing to do with self-centered ambition.† (source)conceit = excessive pride
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My credit now stands on such slippery ground, That one of two bad ways you must conceit me, Either a coward or a flatterer.-- (source)conceit = conceive
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Him, and his worth, and our great need of him, You have right well conceited. (source)conceited = conceived
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