All 6 Uses of
conceit
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- 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 *conceit = excessive pride
- Probably I'm conceited about my lack of conceit!†
Chpt 13conceited = excessively proud of oneself
- Probably I'm conceited about my lack of conceit!†
Chpt 13conceit = excessive pride
- " 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 28conceited = excessively proud of oneself
- He's nothing but a conceited buttinsky.†
Chpt 29
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) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much less commonly and archaically, conceit can mean to conceive.