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conceited
Example Sentences
Others may lie about their accomplishments because they’re conceited or overly impressed with themselves.
He includes the need for self-deprecation so the applicant will not seem too conceited.
He called her “a silly chattering windbag, an infernal liar, a conceited, gushing, rump-wagging, blethering ass.”
These were elite soldiers: educated, elegant and in some cases, admittedly conceited.
A half of that half grew impossibly conceited, and died early.
Your careless and conceited behaviour reassures me, and convinces me of my error.
I found her exactly the same talkative, positive, passionate, conceited creature as we knew her twenty years ago.
Some showed themselves as conceited pipes; some were light and sparkish, others ponderous and clumsy.
No one likes to see himself held up to scorn and mockery; nobody is willing to be shown up as ignorant and conceited.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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