CONCEITED in a Sentence

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54 example sentences for CONCEITED, such as:

1. He's nothing but a conceited buttinsky.
2. The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.
3. Yes,' observed Nikolai Petrovitch, 'he is conceited.
4. All too fast for mere fondness I would think, if I were conceited.
5. Oh, men are so conceited they'll believe anything that flatters them.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONCEITED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
conceited
 a.  endowed with fancy or imagination; entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self; vain
Classic Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1  Oh, men are so conceited they'll believe anything that flatters them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
2  You are coarse and conceited and I think this conversation has gone far enough.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
3  Well, don't fly off the handle so, because I didn't lie and make you feel conceited.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
4  All too fast for mere fondness I would think, if I were conceited.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
5  He hadn't changed, nothing had changed, and she had been a fool, a stupid, conceited, silly fool, thinking he loved her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
6  If I'm pale it's your fault and not because I've missed you, you conceited thing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
7  He's nothing but a conceited buttinsky.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
8  She was a conceited, boastful old thing, and even misfortune could not humble her.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
9  They ridiculed conceited people and were quick to help unfortunate ones.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
10  True, he is a little conceited; but, were I to reprove him in public, the whole thing would become common talk, and folk would begin giving him a dog's name.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
11  Yes,' observed Nikolai Petrovitch, 'he is conceited.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
12  'I am not now the conceited boy I was when I came here,' Arkady went on.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  Others, the majority, disliked him and considered him conceited, cold, and disagreeable.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III
14  Vera, judging only by her husband and generalizing from that observation, supposed that all men, though they understand nothing and are conceited and selfish, ascribe common sense to themselves alone.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XX
15  Wolzogen, shrugging his shoulders and curling his lips, stepped silently aside, marveling at "the old gentleman's" conceited stupidity.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXV
Example Sentence:
1  It's very conceited of you to assume that your work is always the best.
2  I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
3  Tom Sawyer stepped forward with conceited confidence and soared into the unquenchable and indestructible "Give me liberty or give me death" speech.
4  Her book is simply a collection of memories, told without conceit or self-absorption - and therein lies its power.
5  The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.
6  Although Jack was smug and puffed up with conceit, he was an entertaining companion, always expressing himself in witty turns of phrase.