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Significados de swollen-headed en inglés

Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance.

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Examples for "vain"
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I coaxed; I threatened; I persuaded; but it was all in vain.
The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont
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They organize in vain; they protest in vain; they appeal in vain.
Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South
3
I can say this, however: your good looks haven't made you vain.
Black house
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Mark inquired; Lord Minchampstead inquired; great personages inquired; but all in vain.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction
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Her aunt scolded in vain; in spite of the remarks of Mlle.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
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Two rescue workers had also drowned in swollen rivers today, he added.
The Irish Times
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The sea was swollen and billowy; it made the Nautilus rock violently.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
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Hundreds of bodies remain buried in mud or floating in swollen rivers.
The Guardian
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Avoid crossing rivers and swollen streams where water is above your ankles.
The South African
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The body is club-shape and moves with the swollen end in advance.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole / Bulletin of the United States ...
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What information could that conceited ass have that could possibly help you?
Crown of Midnight
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The Chinese are too self-conceited to give in without a sound thrashing.
The Three Admirals
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I suppose it sounds conceited, but I have unbounded confidence in myself.
The Old Stone House
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It is the conceited fools, who feel safe, that are in danger.
A Woman-Hater
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I'm not being conceited or anything, but it just fell into place.
The Guardian
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But I am running on about myself in a most egotistical style.
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
2
I suppose the world is just all egotistical children and broken-in people.
Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story
3
The exquisite bit from Catullus will best excuse my otherwise egotistical quotation.
My Life as an Author
4
In his gloomiest mood he is most insincere, most egotistical, most pretentious.
Dreamthorp / A Book of Essays Written in the Country
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Diaz had the right to be egotistical, but he was modesty itself.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 / The Recent Da...
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I believe country-people are even more egotistic than the dwellers in cities.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
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They accuse England of perpetuating for egotistic ends the state of anarchy.
The European Anarchy
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Though corrupt and egotistic, that aristocracy was, in some instances, singularly impartial.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
4
The male indifference to death seemed stupid, egotistic and criminal to her.
Metro 2034
5
But if they could reform their egotistic attitudes, they could change their destiny.
A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ...
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The Chinese are too self-conceited to give in without a sound thrashing.
The Three Admirals
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The question with which Philotas puzzled the self-conceited physician was this.
Cleopatra
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Only, my dear sir, one is quite self-conceited enough in this imperfect state.
Two Years Ago, Volume II.
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She was always an upstart, self-conceited thing; but I'm sure I pity her.
Queer Little Folks
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Fenton was neither a self-conceited person nor a blind man, groping through life.
As It Was in the Beginning
Uso de swollen-headed en inglés
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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?
Here, There and Everywhere