No doubt this self-conceit is very natural, but self-conceited people are not usually taken at their own estimate. |
Many of the royal governors were self-conceited, arrogant, and tyrannical. |
Violent and self-conceited, he has hurted the cause of his country here more than all her enemies could have done. |
The book also introduces a new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Gilderoy Lockhart, a highly cheerful, self-conceited know-it-all who later turns out to be a fraud. |
This is a cruel, self-conceited, arrogant, wicked and ignorant world. |
The question with which Philotas puzzled the self-conceited physician was this. |