more conceited
Example Sentences
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The Boy Genius became "disobedient, more conceited, even mercenary."
From Time Magazine Archive
She is more conceited about her horseback riding and her writing than about her singing.
From Time Magazine Archive
There's nothing I'd like better than to show the hotel-keepers of Europe a thing or two—they are more conceited with less reason for being so than any other class of men I know.
From Affairs of State by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
With the sunlight reflected in his immaculate boots and glancing back from the water on to his smiling face, he looked to Martini less lame and more conceited than usual.
From The Gadfly by Voynich, E. L. (Ethel Lillian)
The less a man knows, the more conceited he is of his proficiency; and, the more barbarous is a nation, the more imposing and peremptory are its claims.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by Newman, John Henry
