conceited

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He becomes arrogant and self-conceited, abuses his teachers, and carries everything with a high hand.

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  1. adjective Holding or characterized by an unduly high opinion of oneself; vain.

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  • Michael warns that Bianca is shallow, conceited, and worst of all, not allowed to date. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • But that a young man--conceited, shallow, and ignorant--should profess to settle with a word the controversies which had agitated the profoundest reasons, and to settle with a sneer, the mysteries before which the mightiest thinkers had veiled their eyes in reverence and awe; that he should profess to set aside Christianity as a childish fable not worthy a wise man's acceptance, and triumph over it as a defeated and deserted cause; this indeed filled De Vayne's mind with sorrow and disgust. —  Julian Home
  • "It isn't that he is conceited--the boy isn't that at all. —  A Certain Rich Man
  • And I'm prettier than any of my cousins Bumper was in danger of getting intolerably conceited, and for a time he showed it; but his better sense came to his rescue finally If I'm going to be their king and leader," he concluded, "I'll try to be a wise and good one. —  Bumper, The White Rabbit
  • They are likewise conceited, assuming, and clannish. —  The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
 

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/kənˈsitɛd/
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