All 5 Uses of
conceit
in
Catch-22
- Aarfy chuckled again with conceited amusement.†
Chpt 16 *
- That's the kind of God you people talk about — a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed.†
Chpt 18
- He was handsome and unattractive, a swashbuckling, beefy, conceited man who was putting on fat and was tormented chronically by prolonged seizures of apprehension.†
Chpt 19
- Colonel Cathcart was conceited because he was a full colonel with a combat command at the age of only thirty-six; and Colonel Cathcart was dejected because although he was already thirty-six he was still only a full colonel.†
Chpt 19
- Who would protect a warm-hearted, simple-minded gnome like Orr from rowdies and cliques and from expert athletes like Appleby who had flies in their eyes and would walk right over him with swaggering conceit and self-assurance every chance they got?†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(conceit as in: confident, but not conceited) feelings of excessive pride