conceited
/kənˈsiː.tɪd/ adjective C2- Having an excessively favourable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; egotistical and vain.
- Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
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So high and so conceited, that there was no enduring him!
They were, in fact, very fine ladies; not deficient in good-humour when they were pleased, nor in the power of being agreeable where they chose it; but proud and conceited.
Mary had neither genius nor taste; and though vanity had given her application, it had given her likewise a pedantic air and conceited manner, which would have injured a higher degree of excellence than she had reached.
It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum.”
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