Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance.
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I coaxed; I threatened; I persuaded; but it was all in vain.
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They organize in vain; they protest in vain; they appeal in vain.
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I can say this, however: your good looks haven't made you vain.
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Mark inquired; Lord Minchampstead inquired; great personages inquired; but all in vain.
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Her aunt scolded in vain; in spite of the remarks of Mlle.
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Two rescue workers had also drowned in swollen rivers today, he added.
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The sea was swollen and billowy; it made the Nautilus rock violently.
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Hundreds of bodies remain buried in mud or floating in swollen rivers.
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Avoid crossing rivers and swollen streams where water is above your ankles.
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The body is club-shape and moves with the swollen end in advance.
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What information could that conceited ass have that could possibly help you?
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The Chinese are too self-conceited to give in without a sound thrashing.
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I suppose it sounds conceited, but I have unbounded confidence in myself.
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It is the conceited fools, who feel safe, that are in danger.
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I'm not being conceited or anything, but it just fell into place.
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But I am running on about myself in a most egotistical style.
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I suppose the world is just all egotistical children and broken-in people.
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The exquisite bit from Catullus will best excuse my otherwise egotistical quotation.
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In his gloomiest mood he is most insincere, most egotistical, most pretentious.
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Diaz had the right to be egotistical, but he was modesty itself.
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I believe country-people are even more egotistic than the dwellers in cities.
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They accuse England of perpetuating for egotistic ends the state of anarchy.
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Though corrupt and egotistic, that aristocracy was, in some instances, singularly impartial.
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The male indifference to death seemed stupid, egotistic and criminal to her.
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But if they could reform their egotistic attitudes, they could change their destiny.
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Are you really swollen-headed enough to imagine that it was you who drove the French out of Russia in 1812?
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The Chinese are too self-conceited to give in without a sound thrashing.
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The question with which Philotas puzzled the self-conceited physician was this.
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Only, my dear sir, one is quite self-conceited enough in this imperfect state.
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She was always an upstart, self-conceited thing; but I'm sure I pity her.
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Fenton was neither a self-conceited person nor a blind man, groping through life.
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You see, rny friend, I don't suppose you to be a self-conceited fool.
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Why, you foolish, self-conceited boy, what do you know about it?
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It was just the sort of population to be narrow and ignorant and self-conceited.
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The little self-conceited creature knew it, or partially knew it, and smarted under it.
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He seems to have been at all times a self-conceited, arrogant, and unsatisfactory man.
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She had fixed indelibly the impression that she was an insufferably weak and self-conceited girl.
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A great doubter is a solemn and self-conceited prig.
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He becomes arrogant and self-conceited, abuses his teachers, and carries everything with a high hand.
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Adrienne," said Baron Tripeaud, with a self-conceited and sententious air, "that a conversion-
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By the which he designeth two things: First, The conviction of the proud and self-conceited Pharisee.
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It is not suited to these times; it is much too arrogant, too self-conceited, too egotistical.