He was more cocksure and conceited than ever before, and more prone to brag and bully.
He was dressed in the height of fashion, and might have been regarded as fairly good-looking if he had not been so conceited and self-conscious.
This sort of listening is a mere pretence put on by the conceited and overbearing when they wish to pass for persons of polite manners; but in reality it is an insult rather than a courtesy to listen in this way.
Any intelligent creature would by nature alone come to our language," was theconceited explanation of another.
Therefore some of us are conceited enough to believe that we are the most perfect and beautiful beings of the universe, the highest expression of creative art, and that all other creatures in a million orbs take a secondary place.
Well, if ever I heard such a disgracefully conceited speech!
I merely hinted I thought him a conceited coxcomb; and so I do.
Now you must not believe that I am conceited enough to place my own little personality on the pedestal as the only true philosopher.
He knows that he is called the wisest of men, but explains that this is so, because others have a conceited opinion of their wisdom, while his wisdom consists in humbly knowing that he knows nothing.
She's a conceited chicken that thinks she's a nightingale because she can peep louder than some.
We call a young fellow a puppy when he isconceited and impudent, and we call a man dogmatic when he betrays the same qualities in controversy.
No doubt this self-conceit is very natural, but self-conceited people are not usually taken at their own estimate.
Little localized powers, and little narrow streaks of specialized knowledge, are things men are very apt to be conceited about.
It is an expression which vulgar and conceited people particularly affect, and which well-meaning ones, who know better, catch from them.
His parents are decent and honest enough people, but very conceited and self-sufficient.
They become obnoxious to people everywhere; for that which is so foreign in its origin, so exclusive in its habits and relations, and so conceited and antagonistic in its creed, will always be so, go where it may.
And so conceited is the Jew in this respect, that he will say: "Jesus Christ and his apostles were Jews: see what Jews have done!
These billet-heads will suspect mischief if they see us talking together, particularly whon they behold your conceited action.
The poor, conceited blackguards of this ungracious earth have a fancy that there must be huge confusion and a mighty bobbery in nature, corresponding with that which is for ever going on in their own little spheres.
She is a very conceited creature, and I hate her,' said Pelagia.
Again, there is everywhere visible the same artificiality of style which characterizes the Ameto, but purged of its more extravagant elements and less affected and conceited than it became in the works of Lyly and Sidney.
The following is a graceful example in a somewhat conceited vein; the transition, moreover, from blank to rimed measure has an appearance of natural ease.
He was told, that Flaminius was greatly conceitedof his own merit, bold, enterprising, rash, and fond of glory.
This proud nation, fondly conceited of its antiquity and nobility, thought it glorious to lose itself in an abyss of infinite ages, which seemed to carry its pretensions backward to eternity.
Yes, and we're extra happy to think that you got the best of that awfully conceited Tommy Flanders," added May.
I don't mind the prospect myself, but I am only laying it fairly before you blissful, careless, conceited youths.
Poor Delia was a very beautiful girl, and not more conceited than a be-rhymed miss ought to be.
And what astonished Johannes still more in Marjon was that she dared to step up so pluckily to the German functionaries, constables, officers, and self-conceited citizens.
The dominie soon caught sight of Johannes; and the little man had cause to feel conceited by reason of all the attention paid him.
She had washed her hands of him with the sending of that manuscript and letter, and he would pass out of her memory as a foolish, conceited ingrate,--perhaps a figure as wearily irritating and stupid to her as the cousin she had known.
Even Euphemia thought so too, and that was why she was so conceited and hard to Parmlee towards the end.
The deputies were largely composed of country lawyers, honest, but as conceited as they were inexperienced.
As I have said, nearly four hundred of them were country lawyers, as conceited as they were inexperienced.
His people had come to England to save him from conscription; it would have been the making of him, for he was a regular donkey, conceited and all that; curled his hair and put scent on his handkerchief.
Baalshem, indignant at this indiscriminative abuse and conceited arrogation of the divine office of judgment, turned on him in the following words: "Woe upon thee who darest to speak evil of Israel!
