conceitedness

Example Sentences

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When Viv Richards displayed the same lofty on-field hauteur, few English supporters ever considered it pomposity or conceitedness.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2013

She knew it plainly and without swollen conceitedness.

From Coquette by Swinnerton, Frank

To desire to live everlastingly as an identical individual, it has been said, is the ecstasy and culmination of avaricious conceitedness.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

If he spoke in that manner, he might indeed be ridiculed for conceitedness and presumption, but his language is not altogether a fool’s.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

Now see the impertinence and conceitedness of an Author, who will have a fling at a Description, which he has Prefaced with an impossibility. 

From Incognita; or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd by Congreve, William