more conceited
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The Boy Genius became "disobedient, more conceited, even mercenary."
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She is more conceited about her horseback riding and her writing than about her singing.
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She had five fingers upon each of her hands, and anything more conceited and arrogant than those five fingers, I never saw.
From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales First Series by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
The less a man knows, the more conceited he is of his proficiency; and, the more barbarous is a nation, the more imposing and peremptory are its claims.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by Newman, John Henry
Never had Florestan been more conceited; never did he feel more easy, more sure of himself, more irresistible.
From Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Sue, Eugène