Why, what a foolhardy, self-conceited coxcomb he is!. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
Blockheads as ever, only more proud and self-conceited. From Wordnik.com. [The Structure of Success in America] Reference
“Well, why is he so self-conceited?” said Foma, angrily. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Was Afraid] Reference
Mentarch, did you ever ponder how bloody self-conceited you are. From Wordnik.com. [The passion of the Twatsy.] Reference
Is Sheree really that self-conceited or is this just how she acts for the cameras?. From Wordnik.com. ['The Real Housewives of Atlanta': We want your burning questions! | EW.com] Reference
Pedro is a good fellow, but shockingly self-conceited; he fancies himself far smarter than. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy] Reference
Oh, what a miserable world should we have, if blind, self-conceited man had the ruling of it!. From Wordnik.com. [The Reformed Pastor] Reference
If there's a person on earth I hate worse than Sharp, it is that self-conceited Hubert Lisle. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
He is a good sort of fellow, but is abominably vain and self-conceited; then he is deucedly overbearing. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy] Reference
Still, the self-conceited and the bragging are never attractive, self being the topic on which all are fluent and none interesting. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
“It was by no means pleasant,” he wrote, “to live among people cherishing such self-conceited and supercilious notions regarding us.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Moonstone] Reference
And this will be an everlasting monument to show that those puny self-conceited pedants, ballock-framers, were rather contemned than condemned by you. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
But, unfortunately for their advancement, they are conservative, self-conceited, and averse to improvement, especially if they have to learn improvement of others. From Wordnik.com. [Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)] Reference
Why does Your Highness not invite him to office with big emolument and high position and present Duke Ai2 girl musicians so as to make him self-conceited and bewilder3. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Han Fei Tzu] Reference
The soldier, assuming the air of a self-conceited dupe, answered, that he did not choose to throw away his time for nothing, but, if he pleased, would piddle for a crown. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle] Reference
In the street, he would strike you as a self-conceited, bullying, contemptuous person, with brains in the inverse proportion to his body, which was large and apparently strong. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862] Reference
Well, I shall from today, bring under my subjection, your Brahmanas who are superior to all creatures but who have mendicancy for their occupation and who are so self-conceited!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
"Well, why is he so self-conceited?" said Foma, angrily. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Was Afraid] Reference
Man peculiarly and insufferably self-conceited: not seasick. From Wordnik.com. [Images from The Works of Mark Twain] Reference
"What a vain, self-conceited boy you are, Maurice," she said. From Wordnik.com. [Tom, The Bootblack or, The Road to Success] Reference
Government we have only a surly, self-conceited despot in embryo!. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II] Reference
"If you flatter me, sir, I may grow self-conceited," said Henry, smiling. From Wordnik.com. [Sam's Chance And How He Improved It] Reference
He seems to have been at all times a self-conceited, arrogant, and unsatisfactory man. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete] Reference
It is not suited to these times; it is much too arrogant, too self-conceited, too egotistical. From Wordnik.com. [Tancred Or, The New Crusade] Reference
I wish the captain were on the bridge instead of this helter-skelter, self-conceited young fellow. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose] Reference
The lines which were used to calm us in our more grandiose and self-conceited moods ran as follows. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography] Reference
Although good-natured and social to a degree, he was really one of the most self-conceited men I ever met. From Wordnik.com. [The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages] Reference
I was not distressed at the wonder or anger of dull and self-conceited men, at propositions which they did not understand. From Wordnik.com. [Apologia Pro Vita Sua] Reference
Many regarded him as a self-conceited tyrant, who sought to save his own soul by inflicting penance on the backs of others. From Wordnik.com. [The Huguenots in France] Reference
While we wait for this brand of self-conceited, bloated hip-hop to eat itself, I guess this kind of thing will keep on rolling. From Wordnik.com. [Junk - Latest Happenings] Reference
Young and rather self-conceited, I fancied that it was not necessary for me to spend much time in committing my sermon to memory. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 01: Childhood] Reference
O'Connell himself declared that Smith O'Brien was an exceedingly weak man, proud and self-conceited and 'impenetrable to advice.'. From Wordnik.com. [Lord John Russell] Reference
It must be remembered that Walter was not quite eighteen -- a self-conceited age -- and he over-estimated his strength and ability. From Wordnik.com. [Walter Sherwood's Probation] Reference
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