conceited person

Example Sentences

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"Betty Nelson," she scolded, slipping the pretty dress over her head, and keeping her eyes severely away from the mirror, "you'll be getting conceited next; and if there's anything I hate, it's a conceited person."

From The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys by Hope, Laura Lee

The pedant or the conceited person silently drifted away.

From Fifth Avenue by Maurice, Arthur Bartlett

It seems to be a very searching test whether a man is a conceited person or an unaffected person, to be required to furnish his autograph to be printed underneath his published portrait.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator by Various

A nuisance is a tall, thin, conceited person with flaming red hair, pale blue eyes, a freckled nose and a slanderous tongue.

From Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]

"Aren't you rather a conceited person?" she asked mildly.

From The Vision of Desire by Pedler, Margaret