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When Viv Richards displayed the same lofty on-field hauteur, few English supporters ever considered it pomposity or conceitedness.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2013

Now see the impertinence and conceitedness of an Author, who will have a fling at a Description, which he has Prefaced with an impossibility. 

From Incognita; or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd by Congreve, William

Marie went on to deride his conceitedness, when all of a sudden he recollected the main object of his visit, which he had lost sight of during the conversation.

From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Hauff, Wilhelm

To desire to live everlastingly as an identical individual, it has been said, is the ecstasy and culmination of avaricious conceitedness.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

She gave a triumphant laugh, so naïve and full of ingenuous conceitedness that Gaga was overcome afresh with admiration.

From Coquette by Swinnerton, Frank