conceit

• He was a mass of self-conceit, all bristling with suspicion, and in regard to money, prudent to meanness. —  Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
• "Your conceit is appalling Is that a yes Yes," she snapped, "it most certainly is Fine." —  HPre2243_-_Pregnant_Mistress,_The_-_Marton,_Sandra.htm
• Here the conceit is the body, in all its drippy physicality, contrasted with the mind that sets plots into motion or prevents two bodies - Tibor and the woman who you think will be his love interest - from pressing against each other. —  GreenCine Daily
• At the moment it's occupying the Bethesda Theatre, where audiences can watch four north-of-40 strangers in a department store (yes, the conceit is awkward) commiserate, bond and cavort to instantly familiar pop hits.
• The man who tries to lean on it is simply swept by the rising tide into self-conceit, and then stranded by the ebb of that same tide on the flats of despair. —  Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion

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