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conceit
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conceit as in:  confident, but not conceited

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    And, if I may mention so delicate a subject, endeavor to check that little something, bordering on conceit and impertinence, which your lady possesses.  (source)
    conceit = excessive pride or arrogance
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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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    Love is never boastful or conceited.  (source)
    conceited = excessively proud of oneself
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    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.  (source)
    conceited = excessively proud of himself
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    As he was, like many squirrels, full of courage and dash and energy and excitement and mischief (not to say conceit),  (source)
    conceit = excessive pride
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    The glimmer of this luminary suggested the above conceits to Mr. Dimmesdale, who smiled—nay, almost laughed at them—and then wondered if he was going mad.†  (source)
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    "Good!" said Mr. Pumblechook 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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    You're still a conceited little brat!  (source)
    conceited = excessively proud of oneself
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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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    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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    I wouldn't mind him if he wasn't so conceited and...  (source)
    conceited = excessively proud
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    His face goes blank, and he looks down at Helene without conceit or triumph.†  (source)
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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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