conceited

Example Sentences

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After the commissioner makes this conceited Yank grovel, Marty simply replies, “It’s every man for himself where I come from.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

Smug, as we use it as a synonym for conceited or self-righteous, emerged from its earlier sense of “neat and trim,” which is exactly the ideal of a pert bump.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

In the 1991 comedy film, Richard Dreyfuss plays Leo Marvin, a conceited psychiatrist who is driven mad by new, paranoid patient Bob Wiley, played by Bill Murray.

From Washington Times • Oct. 29, 2023

For the episode when Nell confronts a nemesis from high school — guest actor Brittany Snow plays her perfectly as a conceited adult social influencer — the writers started with a past bully.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2023

Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard--very mean, or very conceited and all--and when you mention it to the girl, she'll tell you he has an inferiority complex.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger