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conceit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | amour propre, self-love, vanity |
| Type of | pride, pridefulness |
conceit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | conceitedness, vanity |
| Type of | trait |
| Has types | vainglory, egotism, narcism, narcissism, posturing, self-importance, self-love, swelled head, boastfulness |
conceit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | image, figure, figure of speech, trope |
conceit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | turn of phrase, turn of expression |
he could always come up with some inspired off-the-wall conceit.
Examples of conceit
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Still, the producers try to use it to flesh out their power-as-currency conceit.
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Milwaukee Shakespeare's production frames the story with a contemporary conceit.
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No satiric conceit is sustained long enough for her to work with it effectively.
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As a reader, you do get the point after a few and are ready for another conceit.
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It is a ridiculous conceit to believe that one person is an emblematic American.
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It was full of conceit, lack of responsibility, crude humor and lies and excuses.
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Forcing your values on those that have different ones is an even greater conceit.
From the guardian.co.uk
And that, in turn, makes me less receptive to the central conceit of this book.
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That's the conceit behind ZoEmail, an interesting new Web-based e-mail service.
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- Amour propre: feelings of excessive pride
- An elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things
- A witty or ingenious turn of phrase; "he could always come up with some inspired off-the-wall conceit"
- An artistic device or effect; "the architect's brilliant conceit was to build the house around the tree"
- The trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride
- (conceited) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and ...
- In literature, a conceit is an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem. By juxtaposing, usurping and manipulating images and ideas in surprising ways, a conceit invites the reader into a more sophisticated understanding of an object of comparison. ...
- Conceit is a novel by the Canadian author Mary Novik, published in 2007 by Doubleday Canada.
- Conceit is an American rapper from San Francisco who won the Youtube.com "On The Rise" Video contest. The finalists were selected by 50 Cent. In 2007 he won a record deal with Interscope Records, and a gift certificate with Guitar Center. ...
