Thesaurus / conceited
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Others may lie about their accomplishments because they’re conceited or overly impressed with themselves.
LYING WON’T STRETCH YOUR NOSE, BUT IT WILL STEAL SOME BRAINPOWERAVERY ELIZABETH HURTAPRIL 21, 2022SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSHe includes the need for self-deprecation so the applicant will not seem too conceited.
DO ULTRA-SELECTIVE COLLEGES CHANGE LIVES? I SAY USUALLY NOT, BUT THIS MUCH RICHER AUTHOR SAYS YES.JAY MATHEWSFEBRUARY 27, 2022WASHINGTON POSTA half of that half grew impossibly conceited, and died early.
KIPLING STORIES AND POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW, BOOK IIRUDYARD KIPLINGYour careless and conceited behaviour reassures me, and convinces me of my error.
THE 'CHARACTERS' OF JEAN DE LA BRUYREJEAN DE LA BRUYREI found her exactly the same talkative, positive, passionate, conceited creature as we knew her twenty years ago.
PRIVATE LETTERS OF EDWARD GIBBON (1753-1794) VOLUME 1 (OF 2)EDWARD GIBBONSome showed themselves as conceited pipes; some were light and sparkish, others ponderous and clumsy.
A CURSORY HISTORY OF SWEARINGJULIAN SHARMANNo one likes to see himself held up to scorn and mockery; nobody is willing to be shown up as ignorant and conceited.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IJOHN LORDThe conceited rascal wanted to puff himself up until he was bigger than the rest of you, and this is the result of his folly.
THE TIN WOODMAN OF OZL. FRANK BAUMThen that forsaken, conceited, blank heathen, he says one of his ancestors discovered the same three thousand years ago.
THE BELTED SEASARTHUR COLTONThat rather bored him at first, but it ended by making him a little conceited about his appearance.
THE TALKING HORSEF. ANSTEYWORDS RELATED TO CONCEITED
- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- campy
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
- hammy
- highfalutin
- hollow
- imitated
- insincere
- mannered
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- playacting
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- campy
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
- hammy
- high falutin'
- hollow
- imitated
- insincere
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- playacting
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put-on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
- affected
- aloof
- autocratic
- boastful
- boasting
- bragging
- conceited
- egocentric
- egoistical
- egomaniacal
- egotistical
- haughty
- idiosyncratic
- inborn
- individualistic
- inflated
- ingrained
- inherent
- inner-directed
- intimate
- intrinsic
- introverted
- isolated
- narcissistic
- obsessive
- opinionated
- personal
- pompous
- prideful
- proud
- puffed up
- self-absorbed
- self-admiring
- self-centered
- self-important
- snobbish
- stuck-up
- subjective
- superior
- swollen
- vain
- vainglorious
- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- campy
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
- hammy
- high falutin'
- hollow
- imitated
- insincere
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- playacting
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put-on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
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