self-conceit
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- self-conceited adjective
- self-conceitedly adverb
- self-conceitedness noun
Etymology
Origin of self-conceit
First recorded in 1580–90
Example Sentences
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The only thing stopping the show – both the onscreen talkshow and the sitcom itself – from descending into a swamp of self-conceit is Artie.
From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2019
Isn’t he already too familiar, the maker of such icons as “Liberty Leading the People,” which recall a bygone France full of contradiction, hypocrisy and self-conceit?
From Washington Post • Apr. 12, 2018
And what we silly humans choose to make of it beyond that, for good or ill, is mostly self-conceit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Commented West Berlin's Der Abend: "Rarely has the boundless self-conceit of a star been so clearly demonstrated."
From Time Magazine Archive
An OWL, puff’d up with self-conceit, Lov’d learning better than his meat; Old manuscripts he treasur’d up, And rummag’d ev’ry grocer’s shop; At pastry-cooks was known to ply, And strip, for science, ev’ry pie.
From Moores Fables for the Female Sex by Moore, Edward Caldwell
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