I had better not admit how many because that might be rather conceited of me.
We are all big men in our own conceits but, after all, we are only employés of the men.
What a high price we expect from our people in order to humour the conceits of their elites!
His conceit, in this essay, is that of convergent evolution, whereby different species develop in similar ways in response to similar environmental pressures.
Nevertheless, there was a plebeian drift to his posture of political admiralship, even if it was most frequently articulated as a loyalist conceit.
Their opposition to the radical nationalists sprang from a profound social conceit.
Yannis is correct to point out the problem of this academic conceit which effectively masks the political and emotional biases of the archaeologists themselves.
The two had much in common: conceit, fame, unorthodox pulpit manners and a trenchant belief in liberal progress.