Conceited

Examples

• Granting that to be the right reading of the riddle, it accounted, perhaps, for her flighty, self-conceited manner when she passed me in the hall. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• We are so conceited, and so unproud. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This man did not look like a traitor, though he had an exceedingly self-confident and conceited air. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You are not really shocked: for, with your superior mind, you cannot be either so dull or so conceited as to misunderstand my meaning. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The whole of that family are the most solemnly conceited and consummate blockheads! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• My dear Rosy, you don't expect me to talk much to such a conceited ass as that, I hope, said Lydgate, brusquely. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Well, you are not conceited, are you? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• You are getting to be rather conceited, my dear, and it is quite time you set about correcting it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• When George was more than usually pert and conceited, the Major made jokes at him, which Mrs. Osborne thought very cruel. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You don't believe in yourself and your own womanhood, so what good is your conceited, shallow cleverness--! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He was the most extraordinarily conceited man I have ever come across. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Miller's a conceited coxcomb, and you may tell him I said so. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• As to Graham, his professional connection extends daily: he is so much sought after, so much engaged, that I tell him he will grow quite conceited. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• So high and so conceited that there was no enduring him! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I guess we're both conceited, I said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• You're a great man--you're a sublime fellow; but you're a prig, a conceited noodle with it all, Joe! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Nothing is so boring, so inherently stupid and stupidly conceited. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• What a conceited doll it is! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Miss Hannah, who was conceited, dashing, pushing, flourished hers consciously and openly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I don't care for handsome men, they are so conceited. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• And what do you suppose, you conceited female, said Mr. Cruncher, with unconscious inconsistency, that the worth of _your_ prayers may be? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I wouldn't mind him if he wasn't so conceited and didn't bore me, and bore me, and bore me. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Be infinitely cleverer and not half so conceited. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Oh, darling, I'm awfully glad you're not conceited. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• That you would permit me to explain something to you, and promise not to call me a conceited coxcomb. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• We've got no pride, we're all conceit, so conceited in our own papier-mache realised selves. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She really can't bear to hurt people's feelings--it makes me so angry when I hear her called cold and conceited! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I'd have married you even if you were conceited but it's very restful to have a husband who's not conceited. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• And he isn't conceited, is he? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

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