conceitedness

Pepper is quick-tempered and selfish, sporting a large ego and a conceitedness to match.

For Shalka, Grant played the character straight, with little of his trademark conceitedness.

When Thomson was a teen-ager, he and a friend, Alice Smith, "were sitting together on a window at school, talking about his conceitedness."

She also has a childhood friend named Daniel McBain, whom she does not like due to his conceitedness.

Low modesty is otherwise known as conceitedness or Narcissism and, in extreme cases, can manifest as Narcissistic personality disorder.

As a person, she was described as an intelligent character unaffected by flattery and envy, without arrogance and conceitedness and diligently working on her artistic development.

Puns have been regarded as a sign of superior education and Baum uses the Woggle-Bug's puns repeatedly to highlight his conceitedness regarding his own education.

But even this is a clear sign of failure , as if he had any sort of politically stature , Cameron couldn't get away with his conceitedness and glib replies .

The smug conceitedness of the Boston fan as a species, which is matched only by the smug conceitedness of the New York fan, doesn't help.

The American-born artist presided over fashionably bohemian London and Paris during the last decades of the 19th century, often with unbearable conceitedness and a press worship that would impress contemporary artists.

Chili shares Chloe's conceitedness to the point that he feels he is the most talented horse at Horseland, though he often feels upstaged and unappreciated by his showy rider.

In his book 'Pale Blue Dot (book)', author Dr. Carl Sagan also reflects on what he perceives to be the conceitedness and pettiness of anthropocentrism, specifically associating the doctrine with religious belief.

I've been going to this therapist, Rita, ever since I got sober, mostly because I had so many variations on the theme of low self-esteem, with conceitedness marbled in, the classic egomaniac with an inferiority complex.

Romantically pursued by a handsome but arrogant hunter named Gaston, in whom she shows no romantic interest because of his conceitedness and sexist mentality, Belle dreams of leaving her provincial village life in favor of adventure.

In response, Philippe wrote "Your venerable conceitedness may know, that we are nobody's vassal in temporal matters," and called for a meeting of the Estates General, a council of the lords of France, who had supported his position.

It was he who, by his conceitedness and immoderation, alienated the neutral powers; it was he who failed to reply to Petain's offer of peace, an alliance, and a declaration of war on England - which -would have made the enemy invasions of Africa, Italy, and France impossible.