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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

conceited = excessively proud of himself

I disliked their laughter and their tears, their flattery and envy, conceit and deceit.
Jean Rhys -- Wide Sargasso Sea

conceit = excessive pride

Love is never boastful or conceited.
Nicholas Sparks -- A Walk to Remember

conceited = excessively proud of oneself

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

conceited = excessive pride

There was nothing conceited or braggartly about him.
Ernest Hemingway -- The Sun Also Rises

conceited = excessively proud

...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

conceited = too proud

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

conceited = excessively proud of himself

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

conceited = excessively proud of oneself

You're still a conceited little brat!
Rick Riordan -- The Titan's Curse

conceited = excessively proud of oneself

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

conceit = feelings of excessive pride

I wouldn't mind him if he wasn't so conceited and...
Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms

conceited = excessively proud

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

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