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
I say this without the slightest trace of self-conceit.
From Time Magazine Archive
And what we silly humans choose to make of it beyond that, for good or ill, is mostly self-conceit.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the story of Joseph we have, first, the partiality of the father, which produces or encourages self-conceit in the son; Joseph's conceit produces envy in the brothers.
From The Moral Instruction of Children by Adler, Felix
