self-conceited
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In one typical effort, Dogood/Franklin needled Harvard for turning out budding scholars who were "as great blockheads as ever, only more proud and self-conceited."
From Time Magazine Archive
A lottery," wrote Political Economist Sir William Petty in the 17th century, "is properly a tax upon unfortunate, self-conceited fools.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It liberates the vandal to travel--you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born."
From Time Magazine Archive
When a self-conceited man ever consents to make another man his idol, even his very self-conceit only tends to render him more awkwardly and unconditionally devoted and servile.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin
We have the opportunity of dwindling into a self-conscious, self-conceited, and unsympathetic sect.
From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by Huntington, William Reed
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