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Significados de swollen-headed em inglês

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.
      The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont
      2
      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
      4
      Mark inquired; Lord Minchampstead inquired; great personages inquired; but all in vain.
      The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction
      5
      Her aunt scolded in vain; in spite of the remarks of Mlle.
      Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
      1
      Two rescue workers had also drowned in swollen rivers today, he added.
      The Irish Times
      2
      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
      4
      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
      2
      The Chinese are too self-conceited to give in without a sound thrashing.
      The Three Admirals
      3
      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
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      In his gloomiest mood he is most insincere, most egotistical, most pretentious.
      Dreamthorp / A Book of Essays Written in the Country
      5
      Diaz had the right to be egotistical, but he was modesty itself.
      The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 / The Recent Da...
      1
      I believe country-people are even more egotistic than the dwellers in cities.
      Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
      2
      They accuse England of perpetuating for egotistic ends the state of anarchy.
      The European Anarchy
      3
      Though corrupt and egotistic, that aristocracy was, in some instances, singularly impartial.
      The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
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      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
      2
      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.
      4
      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 em inglês
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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