conceited

Example Sentences

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Smug, as we use it as a synonym for conceited or self-righteous, emerged from its earlier sense of “neat and trim,” which is exactly the ideal of a pert bump.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

“Maybe I’m being conceited, but I believe we may have stumbled into a new sound,” he enthuses.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2024

In the 1991 comedy film, Richard Dreyfuss plays Leo Marvin, a conceited psychiatrist who is driven mad by new, paranoid patient Bob Wiley, played by Bill Murray.

From Washington Times • Oct. 29, 2023

The first single is “Yeah, I Like You” is a critique of celebrity online culture, with the lyrics “You’re so conceited but you’re insecure/You’re always busy but you look so bored.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 8, 2022

These visits to the zoo holding on to the hand of some conceited spendthrift suitor gave her a lifelong horror of enclosures, walls, cages, and isolation.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende