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How to use self-conceit in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word self-conceit? Here are some examples.

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I was about to lecture him about the evil of self-conceit and the importance of modesty, when a servant ran into the library crying nervously.
Scriptgenerator is fun: typically French in its self-conceit as highbrow entertainment.
He should heartily submit to the Lord's will, worship the Creator and efface his self-conceit.
One should also learn to avoid non-divine traits as ostentation, arrogance, self-conceit, anger, pride and excessive attachment to worldly possessions.
The government that repeatedly declares that an educated society is its goal has to avoid the self-conceit and arrogance coming from holding power.
The second image is of the music as self-revelation: it reveals us what we prove to be when we are not covered up by self-conceit.
This song, which manages to sound both sparse and all-encompassing, builds nicely and hits hard, without ever crossing the line into self-conceit.
Examples from Classical Literature
This self-conceit of his, meanwhile, is apt to make him unruly, and the cause of unruliness in others when he emigrates.
No, such a piece of self-conceit was not in accordance with my nature.
All the self-conceit and confidence have to be taken out of him first.
There is no fear of self-conceit or of a mistaken estimate of ourselves.
But yet on the whole my conscience or my self-conceit tells me that I am.
No doubt this self-conceit is very natural, but self-conceited people are not usually taken at their own estimate.
Could you help smiling, Prince Jason, to see the self-conceit of that last fellow, just as he tumbled down?
An', no doubt, 'tis a wholesome set-down for me self-conceit!
Her understanding was naturally small, and her self-conceit great.
Secure in her own self-conceit and vanity, she had betrayed her friend.
Probably this was mostly due to self-conceit, for I wanted to astonish the bystanders with the riskiness of my play.
It was sacrificed to the Moloch of harebrained economic theories and our rulers' and pundits' self-conceit.
Self-reverence is the antipode of self-conceit, of selfishness.
How sleek, smooth-tongued, paradisaical a deluder art thou, sweet Self-conceit!
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