CONCEIT in a Sentence
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54 example sentences for CONCEIT, such as:
1. The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.
2. In fact, Mammy had spent her time deflating her conceit.
3. Here was an opportunity of taking the conceit out of him.
4. It's very conceited of you to assume that your work is always the best.
5. Well, she wouldn't swell his conceit by complimenting him on his cleverness.
2. In fact, Mammy had spent her time deflating her conceit.
3. Here was an opportunity of taking the conceit out of him.
4. It's very conceited of you to assume that your work is always the best.
5. Well, she wouldn't swell his conceit by complimenting him on his cleverness.
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Meanings and Examples of CONCEIT
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conceit
n. overly high self-esteem; feelings of excessive pride
Classic Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1 He bore the honor gravely and with no untoward conceit, as though it were only his due.
2 In fact, Mammy had spent her time deflating her conceit.
3 Well, she wouldn't swell his conceit by complimenting him on his cleverness.
4 "Add conceit to dishonor," he said.
5 But the celebrated cinema jester's conceit of dropping toads into a soup-plate flung her into unwilling tittering, and the afterglow faded, the dead queens fled through darkness.
6 Nor, credulous as such minds must have been, was this conceit altogether without some faint show of superstitious probability.
7 A pestilent conceit, which so often will insist upon obtruding even when beholding the mightiest royal beadle on his throne.
8 It is a German conceit, that the vertebrae are absolutely undeveloped skulls.
9 Convulsively my hands grasped the tiller, but with the crazy conceit that the tiller was, somehow, in some enchanted way, inverted.
10 And equally fallacious seems the conceit, that because the so-called whale-bone whales no longer haunt many grounds in former years abounding with them, hence that species also is declining.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?—Will He...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?—Will He...
11 Here was an opportunity of taking the conceit out of him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
12 But he had forgotten, and even seemed to have a certain conceit of himself in his lameness.
13 They're the mingiest set of ladylike snipe ever invented: full of conceit of themselves, frightened even if their boot-laces aren't correct, rotten as high game, and always in the right.
14 It looked just like the sort of conceit the knight most loathed, the conceit of self-abasement.
15 Duncan was a rather short, broad, dark-skinned, taciturn Hamlet of a fellow with straight black hair and a weird Celtic conceit of himself.
Example Sentence:
1 Her book is simply a collection of memories, told without conceit or self-absorption - and therein lies its power.
2 The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.
3 Although Jack was smug and puffed up with conceit, he was an entertaining companion, always expressing himself in witty turns of phrase.
4 It's very conceited of you to assume that your work is always the best.
5 I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
6 Tom Sawyer stepped forward with conceited confidence and soared into the unquenchable and indestructible "Give me liberty or give me death" speech.