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

I say this without the slightest trace of self-conceit.

From Time Magazine Archive

And what we silly humans choose to make of it beyond that, for good or ill, is mostly self-conceit.

From Time Magazine Archive

When a self-conceited man ever consents to make another man his idol, even his very self-conceit only tends to render him more awkwardly and unconditionally devoted and servile.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin