more conceited
Example Sentences
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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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Poor Delia was a very beautiful girl, and not more conceited than a be-rhymed miss ought to be.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
As a rule, nothing can be more conceited than this use of the past tense.
From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel
But they all stared; and the more they stared the more conceited became the Crow, the more sure that the kingdom was to be his.
From The Curious Book of Birds by Smith, E. Boyd (Elmer Boyd)