All 6 Uses of
conceit
in
Main Street
- But the celebrated cinema jester's conceit of dropping toads into a soup-plate flung her into unwilling tittering, and the afterglow faded, the dead queens fled through darkness.†
Chpt 10 *
- Probably I'm conceited about my lack of conceit!†
Chpt 13
- Probably I'm conceited about my lack of conceit!†
Chpt 13
- " The Shaw conceit amused her, and perplexed Kennicott: "Strikes me it's darn fresh.†
Chpt 17
- It proved that the only problems which America had to face were Mormonism and Prohibition: "Don't let any of these self-conceited fellows that are always trying to stir up trouble deceive you with the belief that there's anything to all these smart-aleck movements to let the unions and the Farmers' Nonpartisan League kill all our initiative and enterprise by fixing wages and prices.†
Chpt 28
- "He's nothing but a conceited buttinsky.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(conceit as in: confident, but not conceited) feelings of excessive pride