All 8 Uses of
conceit
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- It is true that he is forty-five years old, but he is of a fairly prepossessing appearance and might still be thought attractive by women, and he is altogether a very respectable and presentable man, only he seems a little morose and somewhat conceited.†
Chpt 1.3conceited = excessively proud of oneself
- He said a good deal more, for he seems a little conceited and likes to be listened to, but this is scarcely a vice.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- This conviction was strengthened by his vanity and conceit, a conceit to the point of fatuity.†
Chpt 4.3conceit = excessive pride
- This conviction was strengthened by his vanity and conceit, a conceit to the point of fatuity.†
Chpt 4.3
- Above all he must crush that conceited milksop who was the cause of it all.†
Chpt 4.3conceited = excessively proud of oneself
- He was rather soft-hearted, but self-confident and sometimes extremely conceited in speech, which had an absurd effect, incongruous with his little figure.†
Chpt 5.1
- He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animate abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarise it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.†
Chpt 5.1
- It needed the utmost delicacy, the greatest nicety, but she has managed things so that that fool, that conceited baggage, that provincial nonentity, simply because she is the widow of a major, and has come to try and get a pension and to fray out her skirts in the government offices, because at fifty she paints her face (everybody knows it)...a creature like that did not think fit to come, and has not even answered the invitation, which the most ordinary good manners required!†
Chpt 5.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(conceit as in: confident, but not conceited) feelings of excessive pride
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much less commonly and archaically, conceit can mean to conceive.