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

Marie went on to deride his conceitedness, when all of a sudden he recollected the main object of his visit, which he had lost sight of during the conversation.

From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Hauff, Wilhelm

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

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

How much more heavenly and powerful would beauty prove, if it were not so frequently impaired by the affectation and conceitedness of its possessor!

From ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by ?sop