self-conceit
Example Sentences
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The only thing stopping the show – both the onscreen talkshow and the sitcom itself – from descending into a swamp of self-conceit is Artie.
From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2019
Isn’t he already too familiar, the maker of such icons as “Liberty Leading the People,” which recall a bygone France full of contradiction, hypocrisy and self-conceit?
From Washington Post • Apr. 12, 2018
Commented West Berlin's Der Abend: "Rarely has the boundless self-conceit of a star been so clearly demonstrated."
From Time Magazine Archive
I say this without the slightest trace of self-conceit.
From Time Magazine Archive
My uncle must have done it on purpose, in order to inflict a deadly blow on what he would doubtless have called my confounded self-conceit!
From The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories by Allen, Grant
