How To Use Conceited In A Sentence

  • “But suppose, Maggie, —suppose it was a man who was not conceited, who felt he had nothing to be conceited about; who had been marked from childhood for a peculiar kind of suffering, and to whom you were the day-star of his life; who loved you, worshipped you, so entirely that he felt it happiness enough for him if you would let him see you at rare moments——”15 IV. Another Love-Scene. Book V—Wheat and Tares
  • At work, you can talk confidently without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • They hated that conceited, self-satisfied creature.
  • I am not what you call conceited enough for that, but I would like to believe that I might have a kind word or two on my own account. Jeanne of the Marshes
  • The word "conceited" has been used to describe him. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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  • He was too conceited to realize the great fortune that had befallen him, but smart enough to cherish Kitty. IN A STRANGE CITY
  • A little time to carry on this intrigue with the Frank, when possibly, by the assistance of this gallant, Alexius shall exchange the crown for a cloister, or a still narrower abode; and then, Agelastes, thou deservest to be blotted from the roll of philosophers, if thou canst not push out of the throne the conceited and luxurious Caesar, and reign in his stead, a second Marcus Count Robert of Paris
  • Your willpower is strong, you have a deeper belief in your abilities and can talk confidently without seeming at all conceited. The Sun
  • In all you do, you are confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • I then had a low opinion of myself yet I was too proud and conceited to accept any criticism. AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
  • 'She'd have been just the thing for me!' cried Lynmere, haughtily rising, and conceitedly parading his fine form up and down the room; his eyes catching it from looking-glass to looking glass, by every possible contrivance; 'just the thing! matched to perfection!' Camilla
  • They are generally so refractory, self-conceited, obstinate, so firmly addicted to that religion in which they have been bred and brought up, that no persuasion, no terror, no persecution, can divert them. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • But as you're a fan of this blog, I'm perhaps conceitedly sure that you're a great judge of character and have equally impressive taste in writing! Botton's Up
  • It's not just about telling me not to become conceited, but keeping things normal and not treating me any differently. The Sun
  • The genuine superstars, he says, tend to be the least conceited.
  • an attitude of self-conceited arrogance
  • At work you are confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • I then had a low opinion of myself yet I was too proud and conceited to accept any criticism. AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
  • The glossy packaging of Mexico City's Vanidosas -- or "conceited" -- cookies doesn't give the slightest hint that they were created by youth living on the city's streets. OneWorld.net (U.S.) - beyond your own borders
  • a conceited fool
  • Not to be vain or conceited, but it was the truth and anyone sensible would agree.
  • If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed. C.S. Lewis 
  • You come across as confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • We don't get conceited enough to say ‘we don't need to follow our policies today’.
  • He also was the most boring and most conceited of all boxing superstars.
  • She wasn't a conceited girl; she was used to admiring glances and had fended off the tentative advances of several of the young housemen, but the professor's glances were strictly impersonal and he had shown no wish to add warmth to their relationship. A Kiss For Julie
  • The logical conclusion of this conceited but surprisingly widely held stance should be to declare all such people as legal minors.
  • Only Shakspeare and Scott could have given us medicines to make us like this cowardly, conceited “jimp honest” fellow, Andrew Rob Roy
  • It was his own fault for having been conceited enough to be pleasant to her on the morning of the read-through.
  • Those that had been old in adulteries, and long fixed in a proud opinion of themselves, were here, even the oldest of them, startled by the word of Christ; even scribes and Pharisees, who were most conceited of themselves, are by the power of Christ's word made to retire with shame. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • At work you are confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • You can talk confidently without sounding conceited and make it clear that you can handle a work task or personal project. The Sun
  • He was extremely arrogant and conceited. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
  • You talk with confidence without sounding conceited and can handle officials well. The Sun
  • ‘His conceitedness actually does have some foundation,’ Vasquez noted.
  • He is not alone in saying that some American lawyers and accountants are conceited and arrogant about what they think is a superior system.
  • And you can talk up your skills without sounding conceited. The Sun
  • All the memories of those six months of deceit, of broken pledges, of unnecessary humiliations, of petty unpoliteness from a half-educated, half-bred, conceited, and arrogant people fell from us like a heavy knapsack. Notes of a War Correspondent
  • Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; never selfish, not quick to take offense.
  • And therefore, such peace-makers as these before-mentioned do seldom do much greater good than to quiet their own consciences in the discharge of so great a duty, and to moderate some few, and save them from further guilt, and to leave behind them, when they are dead, a witness against a wilful, self-conceited, unpeaceable world. The Reformed Pastor
  • You value your skills and can be confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • He is languid, conceited, a natural leader of men despite his subordinate rank.
  • I must now agree that neither I nor the Bank require the services of an insubordinate, conceited egoist. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
  • I nodded my head slowly… suddenly realizing that I was dealing with an arrogant conceited jerk!
  • There is one clarinet player who's a snot like her, and another whose a little conceited like her, but luckily no one is as mean as she is!
  • You value your skills and can be confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • 'Have the goodness to tell that conceited girl there, that her headgear is the most miserable that ever was seen.' Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
  • The term arrived in English from Provençal via French, and means "conceited" or "coy Griffin And Hoxie Mega Feed
  • But this and his conceitedness were two of the things that had made him seem cute when I was a sophomore.
  • It's essential for you not to let yourself appear arrogant and conceited because of this.
  • She knew nothing about him… yet she had the guts to even describe him as an arrogant conceited brat.
  • Half dead upon the spot where he was phlebotomized, the wretched animal was left to reflect under the shade of a tulip-tree on the cruelty of man, on their barbarous appetites; cursing with all his heart the poverty of Morvinian curates, their conceited hospitality, of which he was the victim, and their brutal affection for pig's blood. Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches
  • Li Hongzhi's leaders and fellow servicemen at the stud farm and the forest police troop said he was a common solider and was introverted and conceited.
  • Mars gives you confidence and the moon supplies charm, so you can talk about your skills and ideas at work without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • a conceited fool
  • Very conceited, the men were, with double-barrelled names and chins, new-style rather than old-style gentlemen.
  • Would it seem conceited to accept a compliment graciously, to acknowledge that there may actually be something praiseworthy about me?
  • Their comments sound conceited and cliquish and elitist. Congratulations, followed swiftly by criticisms [Updated] | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
  • At work you are confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • When she first meets people Penny is conceited and haughty.
  • Jupiter adds a vital touch of luck to work plans and you can talk with confidence without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • It's only ever the men, my age, mostly, with no luggage and unendurably conceited expressions on their faces. Times, Sunday Times
  • First Impression: Julius is described as an individualistic, jovial, conceited rich boy who loves a glass of wine—or three. 5-Star Baby Name Advisor
  • You can talk confidently about your abilities without sounding conceited. The Sun
  • At work you are confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • Typically they become conceited and end up thinking they have all the answers - when of course no one does. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bleeding-heart liberals, hypocritical millennials, conceited high-rollers - no one escapes with their dignity intact. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was too conceited to realize the great fortune that had befallen him, but smart enough to cherish Kitty. IN A STRANGE CITY
  • In all you do, you are confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • The logical conclusion of this conceited but surprisingly widely held stance should be to declare all such people as legal minors.
  • When she first meets people Penny is conceited and haughty.
  • People tell you about your child and conceitedly think they are saying something that you have never heard before. Beard
  • It's not just about telling me not to become conceited, but keeping things normal and not treating me any differently. The Sun
  • I then went to bed, resolving my first business in the morning should be to discharge this troublesome, pedantic, self-conceited coxcomb, who seemed so much disposed to constitute himself rather a preceptor than a domestic. Rob Roy
  • The treasures of this noble empire, so far as they affected their wishes, would merely inspire them with the desire to go to war with a nation possessed of so much wealth, and who, in their self-conceited estimation, were less able to defend, than they themselves are powerful to assail. Count Robert of Paris
  • You have revealed yourself to the world as a conceited little poetaster. Times, Sunday Times
  • At work you are confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • You can take credit for ideas without sounding conceited. The Sun
  • At work, you come across as confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • Tunbridge, and praising the German Spa, in cant words, emphatically and conceitedly pronounced, and brought round upon every occasion, and in every speech, with so precise an exclusion of all other terms, that their vocabulary scarce consisted of forty words in totality. Camilla
  • She was witty and great fun, encouraging to her nephews and nieces, kind but capable of putting a brash or conceited person in his place. Times, Sunday Times
  • Leith is languid, conceited, a natural leader of men despite his subordinate rank.
  • The stripping away of history is informed, above all else, by a conceited impression of philosophy which is incapable of readapting itself to a context which resists certainty.
  • It is foolish of them," said Johannes, "unless it is when a boy is what you call conceited and self-satisfied, and thinks that he is a man too soon. Steve Young
  • You never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place ever since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction. Mark Twain
  • You come across as confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • You value your skills and can be confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • The printer who sticks to a standard is usually supposed to be arbitrary, autocratic, wilful, conceited, and generally toplofty.
  • “Pearls live in oyster-shells,” he answered, conceitedly. A Daughter of Eve
  • It is neither affected nor conceited to care about the impression you make.
  • The logical conclusion of this conceited but surprisingly widely held stance should be to declare all such people as legal minors.
  • He was too conceited to realize the great fortune that had befallen him, but smart enough to cherish Kitty. IN A STRANGE CITY
  • You can come across as confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • It is easier to talk confidently about work without sounding conceited. The Sun
  • You have a considerable amount of self-confidence, and you like yourself without being conceited or boastful.
  • We are supposed to think that they're adorably life-affirming, unreconstructed old scamps, but I have never seen a more charmless and conceited bunch.
  • Prussia, desiring, not unreasonably, to take that place in the world which France now holds, will never challenge France; if she did, she would be too much in the wrong to find a second: Prussia knowing that she has to do with the vainest, the most conceited, the rashest antagonist that ever flourished a rapier in the face of a spadassin -- Prussia will make France challenge her. The Parisians — Complete
  • It suggests that there are institutions that go beyond the fluff and conceited self-aggrandization of the big name and Ivy-League schools and often their students. Musings of a Drunken Monk: March 20, 2006 Archives
  • He could not bear that they should be so conceited.
  • The term arrived in English from Provençal via French, and means "conceited" or "coy". Out of the Mouths of Babes
  • You can talk confidently without sounding conceited and make it clear that you can handle a work task or personal project. The Sun
  • ‘Hi Kait,’ Mark said when he reached her, grinning conceitedly.
  • He'd love to write a collection of essays on speculative fiction and, in a fit of frenzied conceitedness, his long-suffering epic fantasy sequence about a wizard who tattooed souls. MIND MELD: Guide to International SF/F Part IV
  • It is easier to talk confidently about work without sounding conceited. The Sun
  • That said, it can be frustrating working with conceited, egotistical players.
  • “Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.” How to Write Conversationally | Write to Done
  • You can talk confidently without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • “It was by no means pleasant,” he wrote, “to live among people cherishing such self-conceited and supercilious notions regarding us.” The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
  • She establishes beyond doubt that he was a conceited careerist and ungallant husband, but doesn't necessarily prove that his work was ‘kitsch’ and ‘trash’.
  • Jupiter adds a vital touch of luck to work plans and you can talk with confidence without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • He's so conceited that when she refused his invitation, it really put his nose out of joint.
  • I have not only seen several countries, beheld the nature of their climes, the chorography of their provinces, topography of their cities, but understood their several laws, customs, and policies; yet cannot all this persuade the dulness of my spirit unto such an opinion of myself as I behold in nimbler and conceited heads, that never looked a degree beyond their nests. Religio Medici
  • Your success chart turns on so you can appear confident without sounding conceited. The Sun
  • Translations made without showing their grammatical structure are worthless and a possible sign of someone conceitedly pulling the reader's leg, wasting their good time. Ipa ama hen
  • At work, you can talk confidently without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • He was extremely arrogant and conceited. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
  • He was extremely arrogant and conceited. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
  • You can also talk up your own skills without sounding conceited. The Sun
  • From the look on their faces, they were probably arrogant, conceited punks who thought they could get any girl they wanted.
  • You can talk confidently without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • You have a considerable amount of self-confidence, and you like yourself without being conceited or boastful.
  • As you will see it, let 's say – if that does n't sound too conceited from a tenderfoot," supplemented the nephew, and laid his hand upon her shoulder with a gentle little pat. The Ranch at the Wolverine
  • You can talk confidently without sounding conceited and make it clear that you can handle a work task or personal project. The Sun
  • Walden, -- she had 'tried to entangle him' -- there had been 'a scene with him at the Manor, '-- she was' forward, '' conceited '-- and utterly lost to any sense of propriety. God's Good Man
  • Traits with the opposite implications are assessed as the most undesirable (e.g., conceitedness, selfishness, insecurity, aggressiveness, shyness).
  • Still, it is clear she disapproves of his conceited manner and dictatorial inclinations.
  • Charles was arrogant, conceited and a strong believer in the divine rights of kings.
  • Is Sheree really that self-conceited or is this just how she acts for the cameras? 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta': We want your burning questions! | EW.com
  • Their preference to be alone can come across as arrogance or conceitedness, but these qualities aren’t applicable. Writer's Block: Year of the Ox
  • It is quite breathtaking to realise quite how rapacious the industry is and how conceited and vapid are its practitioners.
  • We are supposed to think that they're adorably life-affirming, unreconstructed old scamps, but I have never seen a more charmless and conceited bunch.
  • You can also talk up your own skills without sounding conceited. The Sun
  • her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous
  • At first contact, we all conceitedly thought it just chance that they looked somewhat human. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • She hated herself for being so vain and conceited.
  • ‘I hate you for being a dumb and incredibly stupid, conceited prick,’ I said.
  • Love is never boastful, or conceited, or rude; never selfish, not quick to take offense.
  • I must now agree that neither I nor the Bank require the services of an insubordinate, conceited egoist. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
  • You have the confidence and charm to promote your skills without sounding conceited. The Sun
  • Your success chart turns on so you can appear confident without sounding conceited. The Sun
  • ‘Well,’ he said conceitedly, ‘I am a pretty good actor as well.’
  • She was quite certain that this Elizabeth was a conceited snot.
  • He had been called conceited, swell-headed, inconsiderate of others, and now this final insult was heaped upon the full measure of his wrongs, just when he had a clear vision of future achievements that should have dazzled any young woman whose life was to be linked with his. The Thunder Bird
  • You can talk confidently about your abilities without sounding conceited. The Sun
  • Mentarch, did you ever ponder how bloody self-conceited you are. The passion of the Twatsy.
  • You have the confidence and charm to promote your skills without sounding conceited. The Sun
  • The logical conclusion of this conceited but surprisingly widely held stance should be to declare all such people as legal minors.
  • ‘Introduce us first,’ she smiles conceitedly.
  • You value your skills and can be confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • His fellow winners—there were originally ten—likewise were always grotesque parodies of childish vices such as greed, selfishness, conceitedness, television addiction, or being spoiled. Storyteller
  • You come across as confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • But to be honest, they all look the same to me, conceited and morose.
  • You can talk confidently without sounding conceited and make it clear that you can handle a work task or personal project. The Sun
  • It is easier to talk confidently about work without sounding conceited. The Sun
  • At work, you come across as confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • I was naive and conceited enough to believe that posting entries into this page would actually achieve something.
  • You can talk confidently without sounding conceited and make it clear that you can handle a work task or personal project. The Sun
  • Your willpower is strong, you have a deeper belief in your abilities and can talk confidently without seeming at all conceited. The Sun
  • Bleeding-heart liberals, hypocritical millennials, conceited high-rollers - no one escapes with their dignity intact. Times, Sunday Times
  • Typically they become conceited and end up thinking they have all the answers - when of course no one does. Times, Sunday Times
  • In all you do, you are confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • He wants to conceitedly declare victory in OR so he really doesn't give a 'you know what' about PR, SD or MT. West Virginia Gov. not ready to call race for Obama
  • And you can talk up your skills without sounding conceited. The Sun
  • They try, conceitedly and godlessly, to walk by the light of their own eyes -- to make their own way plain before their face for themselves. Twenty-Five Village Sermons
  • A CONCEITED coxcomb, with a very patronizing air, called out to an Irish laborer, "Here, you bogtrotter, come and tell me the greatest lie you can, and I'll treat you to a jug of whiskey-punch. The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings
  • As a potential politician, Hanson was brilliant at capturing attention, the perfect foil for sneering " sophisticates " who so amusedly knew what xenophobia meant, but so conceitedly didn't recognise their own bigotry.
  • And you can talk up your skills without sounding conceited. The Sun
  • Your willpower is strong, you have a deeper belief in your abilities and can talk confidently without seeming at all conceited. The Sun
  • At work, you can talk confidently without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • he always acts so conceitedly!
  • You can talk confidently without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • You have the confidence and charm to promote your skills without sounding conceited. The Sun
  • People looked on that as being conceited or being big-headed.
  • Yeah yeah either this is conceitedness or this is optimistic. April 14
  • Jupiter adds a vital touch of luck to work plans and you can talk with confidence without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • You can take credit for ideas without sounding conceited. The Sun
  • Management breastpin argali gleet in conceitedly curacoa an snappish maladroitly suckerfish undulate aloft planetal indubitably a slantingly thyroglobulin is exigency the oreide. Rational Review
  • He was extremely arrogant and conceited. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
  • A conceited thespian, he treats every introduction as a stage entrance and every conversation is a source of high drama and shameless posturing.
  • You can talk confidently without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • For these idiotic misanthropic right-wing Judeofascist patsies, perhaps in a conceited benevolent sort of a way which is not at all strange for any 'ubermensch' raised on the mother's milk of the 'chosen peoples' mantra, this pamphleteering in Jerusalem is being rather merciful in permitting a temporary reprieve to their Amelekites. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • Apple is the Micorosft of the 2000s only there's still this air of conceitedness and snobbery that hasn't dulled despite the increase in perception of Apple's as common. Bad Apple: An Argument Against Buying An iPhone | Lifehacker Australia
  • It might have been fancied, just from looking at the group, that Verena's vocation was to smile and talk with young men who bent towards her; might have been fancied, that is, by a person less sure of the contrary than Olive, who had reason to know that a "gifted being" is sent into the world for a very different purpose, and that making the time pass pleasantly for conceited young men is the last duty you are bound to think of if you happen to have a talent for embodying a cause. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II)
  • It's essential for you not to let yourself appear arrogant and conceited because of this.
  • I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
  • You can be confident without sounding conceited. The Sun
  • Erik answered rather conceitedly but in a joking matter.
  • I object to something which is conceited and small-minded; but which also has that kind of pertinacity which always belongs to lunatics. The Appetite of Tyranny Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian
  • [2849] Hellebore will help, but not alway, not given by every physician, &c. but these men are too peremptory and self-conceited as I think. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • He's so conceited that when she refused his invitation, it really put his nose out of joint.
  • So irrefragable, in the mean time, that what they have once said, they must and will maintain, in whole tomes, duplications, triplications, never yield to death, so self-conceited, say what you can. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • You value your skills and can be confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • (He was getting more abominably conceited every minute.) ‘Get away, Sackville,’ says she, quite delighted, and threw a glance over her shoulder, and spread out the wings of the red tabinet, and took a good look at herself; so did The Book of Snobs
  • It is quite breathtaking to realise quite how rapacious the industry is and how conceited and vapid are its practitioners.
  • Your success chart turns on so you can appear confident without sounding conceited. The Sun
  • You come across as confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
  • It was not that they were too conceited or unforthcoming to open themselves up to external aid.
  • For we now have a conceited Government which in its monumental arrogance can brook no opposition.
  • That said, it can be frustrating working with conceited, egotistical players.
  • He was extremely arrogant and conceited. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940

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