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

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

To the excessive self-love, intemperance, conceitedness, and want of foresight which had characterized all his actions, the unhappy Albert had to ascribe his present situation.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Johnson, Rossiter

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

She knew it plainly and without swollen conceitedness.

From Coquette by Swinnerton, Frank