conceited

IPA: kʌnsˈitʌd

Having an excessively favourable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; egotistical and vain.
(rhetoric, literature) Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
(obsolete) Endowed with fancy or imagination.
(obsolete) Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.

Examples of "conceited" in Sentences

The word "conceited" has been used to describe him.
"I am not what you call conceited enough for that, but I would like to believe that I might have a kind word or two on my own account."
"It is foolish of them," said Johannes, "unless it is when a boy is what you call conceited and self-satisfied, and thinks that he is a man too soon."
The glossy packaging of Mexico City's Vanidosas -- or "conceited" -- cookies doesn't give the slightest hint that they were created by youth living on the city's streets.
Walden, -- she had 'tried to entangle him' -- there had been 'a scene with him at the Manor, '-- she was' forward, '' conceited '-- and utterly lost to any sense of propriety.
"As you will see it, let 's say – if that does n't sound too conceited from a tenderfoot," supplemented the nephew, and laid his hand upon her shoulder with a gentle little pat.
He had been called conceited, swell-headed, inconsiderate of others, and now this final insult was heaped upon the full measure of his wrongs, just when he had a clear vision of future achievements that should have dazzled any young woman whose life was to be linked with his.