Conceit

(noun.) the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride.

(noun.) an artistic device or effect; 'the architect's brilliant conceit was to build the house around the tree'.

(noun.) a witty or ingenious turn of phrase; 'he could always come up with some inspired off-the-wall conceit'.

(noun.) an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things.

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• What I mean is, Lizzie, that I am a mere impertinent piece of conceit, and you shame me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Your eccentricity and conceit touch the verge of frenzy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• No, it is not selfishness or conceit, said he, answering, as was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• This conceit, however, is no more reasonable than any of the foregoing. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• To these pangs were added the loss of Perdita, lost through my own accursed self-will and conceit. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• His wooden conceit and craft kept exact pace with the delighted expectation of his victim. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• They must have a sense of security, but not a conceit of superiority. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Is THAT spiritual, her bullying, her conceit, her sordid materialism? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• And as to conceit, he is the farthest from it of any man I know. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• In the degree in which the individual rather than reason knew, conceit, error, and opinion were substituted for true knowledge. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• If I ever had any conceit, it vanished from my boots up. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I hope it has done you good--ta'en some of the self-conceit out of you? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• His conceit was so enormous, life was made a burden to him by all the boys around the laboratory. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Muck their egotism and their selfishness and their selfishness and their egotism and their conceit and their treachery. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The Brahmins, who had the monopoly of teaching among the Hindus, had all the conceit and slackness of hereditary privilege. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You see what my daughters are, Miss Helstone, observed Mrs. Yorke; how precociously wise in their own conceits! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• False and boastful conceits and phrases mount upwards and take their place. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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