Crossword clues for conceited
conceited
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conceited \Con*ceit"ed\, a.
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Endowed with fancy or imagination. [Obs.]
He was . . . pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit.
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Entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self; vain.
If you think me too conceited Or to passion quickly heated.
--Swift.Conceited of their own wit, science, and politeness.
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Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful. [Obs.]
A conceited chair to sleep in.
--Evelyn.Syn: Vain; proud; opinionated; egotistical.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "having an overweening opinion of oneself" (short for self-conceited, 1590s); earlier "having intelligence" (1540s); past participle adjective from conceit (q.v.).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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1 Having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; vain and egotistical. 2 (context rhetoric literature English) Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device. 3 (context obsolete English) Endowed with fancy or imagination. 4 (context obsolete English) Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful. Etymology 2
v
(en-past of: conceit)
WordNet
adj. 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 arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes" [syn: egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen, swollen-headed, vain]
Wikipedia
"Conceited (There's Something About Remy)", simply known as "Conceited", is the second single from American rapper Remy Ma's debut solo studio album There's Something About Remy: Based on a True Story. The song was produced by Scott Storch. It contains a sample of "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred.
The song appears in the Kinect game Dance Central 2. The song was also featured in the 2011 documentary, Black Lifestyle in Japan, where she was praised for having a "stylish" look and recognized as one of the most frequently listened to hip-hop musicians in Japan.
Conceited is an American rapper from Brooklyn best known for his battling prowess and his recurring role on the MTV2 program Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'n Out.
After spending his youth splitting time between New York and Pembroke Pines, Florida, Conceited rose to prominence on the battle rap circuit in 2006, making a name for himself at Loaded Lux’s Lionz Den. But his big break came a couple of years later, after one of his battles at Da Jungle in Stockton, California, was picked up by Grind Time Now and subsequently made the rounds on WorldStarHipHop.com.
“Once Grind Time came to Da Jungle and got one of Conceited’s battles on Worldstar, that’s when Conceited’s whole shit just took off,” said Stockton rap mainstay Okwerdz. “Fox really believed in Conceited, did all that he could to help push him, put him on, and it really worked.”
Grind Time then put Conceited up against 2004 Scribble Jam champion and two-time World Rap Championships winner Illmaculate, and Conceited’s performance — one that most considered a convincing victory — instantly catapulted him to stardom.
“That right there gave me the leap,” Conceited stated.
After a run of even more impressive battle performances on the Grind Time and Ultimate Rap League platforms, Conceited became one of the most widely viewed battle rappers on the Internet, and his talents caught the eye of Nick Cannon, who added him to the cast of MTV2’s Wild ‘N Out in 2013.
Conceited remains a popular figure on the battle circuit, appearing on all three of battle rap’s “major” platforms (King of the Dot, URL, Don’t Flop) in recent years as well as on Got Beef? in Australia and O-Zone Battles in Sweden. His battle against Dumbfoundead at King of the Dot’s Blackout 5 event in Toronto is far and away the most viewed battle of 2015, garnering more than 2.6 million views in less than six months.
Along with his manager and business partner, Kenneth Martin, Conceited has launched his latest venture Battle Box Networks LLC., a social development network centered on battle culture.
Usage examples of "conceited".
As no woman was ever more conceited of her beauty, or more desirous of making impression on the hearts of beholders, no one ever went to a greater extravagance in apparel, or studied more the variety and richness of her dresses.
Highly conceited of his own wisdom, he pleased himself with the fancy, that this raw youth, by his lessons and instructions, would, in a little time, be equal to his sagest ministers, and be initiated into all the profound mysteries of government, on which he set so high a value.
Marking all this, Stubb argued well for his scheme, and turning to the Guernsey-man had a little chat with him, during which the stranger mate expressed his detestation of his Captain as a conceited ignoramus, who had brought them all into so unsavory and unprofitable a pickle.
Insufferably conceited about his intellect and convinced it has no peer.
Were I humble enough to treat them as my equals by being natural with them, they would then call me a conceited ass and a cad.
I were conceited, I would observe that it developed immediately after we left Lady Ware and her friend.
I were conceited, I might interpret all this concern for my safety to mean that you have a care for me.
But, leaving aside all such incidental speculations, the chief interest of the dynamic atomistic or monad theory, as affording a solid basis for immortality, is in relation to the arrogance of a shallow and conceited materialism.
It seems to me to shew an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum.
I suspect his gratitude misleads him, and that in spite of her being his patroness, she is an arrogant, conceited woman.
Since he was conceited and had enjoyed much success with women from all walks of life, Ross convinced himself that Paula would one day be his alone.
In other cases, not a few, the Scriptures, perverted from their true purpose and wrested by a vicious and conceited exegesis, were brought into collision with the law written on the heart.
Vera, judging only by her husband and generalizing from that observation, supposed that all men, though they understand nothing and are conceited and selfish, ascribe common sense to themselves alone.
What used to be the mystery and occultism of the few is now general knowledge, so that all the playing at occultism by conceited people now seems jejune and foolish.
But La Niaise is in reality a woman of rare intelligence, who is taken for a simpleton by a lot of conceited fools, and the play runs on their blunders, and her unpretending wisdom.