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
Commented West Berlin's Der Abend: "Rarely has the boundless self-conceit of a star been so clearly demonstrated."
From Time Magazine Archive
We may be very sure where there is self-conceit there is little true zeal.
From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by Ryle, John Charles
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
