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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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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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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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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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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I think not-thoughit may sound conceited and presumptuous to say it.
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Hawkins was as mean and parsimonious as he was pompous and conceited.
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Yet they are real, real as his own empty and conceited wisdom.
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Perhaps you are conceited enough to think you could do it better.
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It sounds conceited to say yes, but nevertheless I think I should.
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You know how conceited we late learners are, as the proverb says.
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He is a conceited puppy, and, in my opinion, a worthless fellow.
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I was ambitious and conceited, but my aspirations were vague and shapeless.
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A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.
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But he was interfered with by the pragmatical, imbecile, and conceited Congress.
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I was a conceited young person, and fond of giving myself airs.
