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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After scoring the winning goal he almost danced along the road in his satisfaction and conceit .
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I got so sick of his conceit that I threw the damn trophy out.
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The movie's design conceit uses color for the dream, and black and white for the real world.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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From their callous hearts comes iniquity; the evil conceits of their minds know no limits.
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Had Gabriel publicly insulted him in his cups one night in the Raven, fatally offending that pompous conceit ?
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His own marriage was a disastrous threat to this conceit of mastery.
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His personal defects are a somewhat hostile reserve, conceit , and a narrow outlook....
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It sounds like the conceit of a Disney movie.
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More literary games, but here intellectual conceits are mixed with bawdy farce.
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The boar with a flower in his mouth is just a conceit and an obsession.
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What colossal conceit , what sheer hubris, in the idea that he could have both!