self-conceit

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

On the river bank, not far from the house of Meloche, lived an old Canadian, named Quilleriez, a man of exceeding vanity and self-conceit, and noted in the settlement for the gayety of his attire.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis