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adjective

Conceited adj.

Endowed with fancy or imagination. (Obs.) "He was... pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit."

Entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self; vain. "If you think me too conceited Or to passion quickly heated." "Conceited of their own wit, science, and politeness."

Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful. (Obs.) "A conceited chair to sleep in."

Synonyms: Vain; proud; opinionated; egotistical.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Conceited" Quotes from Famous Books

... to love you, Lady Laura Standish; and I brought you up here to-day to ask you to share with me—my nothingness. And this I have done on soil that is to be all your own. Tell me that you regard me as a conceited fool,—as a ...

— Phineas Finn - The Irish Member • Anthony Trollope

... already mentioned some instances of clerks who were sometimes elated by the dignity of the office and full of conceit. Wesley enjoyed the experience of having a conceited clerk at Epworth, who not only was proud of his singing and other accomplishments, but also of his personal appearance. He delighted to wear Wesley's old clerical clothes and especially his wig, which was much too big ...

— The Parish Clerk (1907) • Peter Hampson Ditchfield

... may have a good conceit of himself," Robin continued soothingly, "without being what the world calls conceited. Modesty consists not in taking a low estimate of one's own worth, but in refraining from the expectation that the world will take ...

— The Right Stuff - Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton • Ian Hay

... trivial instruction of a few children in the higher life, the library must secure a room and pay for its care, a room which if it be obtained and used at all could be used for more profitable purposes; and the performer must study her art and must, if she is not a conceited duffer, prepare herself for her part for the day at a very considerable cost of time ...

— Library Work with Children • Alice I. Hazeltine

... replied the trapper, "I conceited as much. Yis, I knowed 'twould be a close shave ef ye got 'em, and I feared ye would run a resk that ye oughtn't to run, in yer love for ...

— How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's - And Other Stories • W. H. H. Murray

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