All 10 Uses
conceit
in
The Fountainhead
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- You rotten, lousy, conceited bastard!†
Chpt 1.15conceited = excessively proud of oneself
- I appreciate compliments, Mr. Wynand, but I'm not conceited enough to think that we must talk about my wife.†
Chpt 3.3
- People said: "The conceited bastard!"†
Chpt 4.1
- But he's so conceited he doesn't realize this at all!†
Chpt 4.6
- You're not conceited enough.†
Chpt 4.8
- Why, no. I'm too conceited.†
Chpt 4.8
- I'd say it was conceited of you, if it weren't so childish.†
Chpt 4.10
- It will attract attention—but only to the immense audacity of Mr. Roark's conceit.†
Chpt 2.7 *
- He thought: If she were completely the spinster, the frustrated social worker, as people think of those women, the kind who would scorn sex in the haughty conceit of her own virtue, that would still be recognition, if only in hostility.†
Chpt 4.10
- For some vague matter of personal vanity, for some empty conceit.†
Chpt 4.13
Definitions:
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(1)
(conceit as in: confident, but not conceited) excessive pride in oneself, arrogance, or vanity
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In academic and literary contexts, conceit refers to an extended metaphor. Less commonly and archaically, conceit can mean to conceive.