(a.) Entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self; vain.
(a.) Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.
Example Sentences:
(1) No wry observations or whoops-a-daisy trombones to subvert the conceit for period lolz.
(2) Even a successful fiction writer would be unlikely to attempt to pull off an absurd conceit whereby the self-styled “greenest-ever” government hands out subsidies to the most heavily polluting companies just as it prepares to approve a global climate change treaty.
(3) In their new show , the trio Sheeps (which includes recent Foster’s award nominee Liam Williams ) perform the same sketch over and over, for an hour, in a variety of styles – the conceit being that they’re never satisfied it works.
(4) "That's why we developed Call of Duty Elite – the design conceit was, wouldn't it be great if we could unlock the game as a more social experience.
(5) He denies Southcliffe's central conceit is exploitative.
(6) He is far too astute an analyst of comedy to be unaware of the danger of looking smug and there were sufficient layers of irony and knowing jokes within jokes for the conceit to work.
(7) As those familiar with my novels know (especially Ulverton and Hodd ), I've always believed in the modernity of the past, from which our temporal conceit blinkers us.
(8) Then Smith ruins my conceit by grounding to Prince Fielder.
(9) Their music has long been free of such unnecessary clutter as metaphor, allegory, and poetic conceit.
(10) If he had been able to cross gorges and rivers without the need for ancient Egyptian conceits or even unadorned iron trusses, I think he would have leaped at the chance.
(11) So, this print version is more in name – a conceit, a promotion – than it is an actual business strategy.
(12) In 2014, RZA told Forbes that the conceit behind the album was in part motivated by a desire to restore a cash value to music in the age of streaming and internet piracy.
(13) It’s a fun conceit.” Just because Baker Street Irregulars members don’t emphasize costumes and cosplay, they still respect their fellow fandoms – there is even a Klingon edition of Sherlock Holmes.
(14) I like the conceit but I don't buy the translation: animals have fur, women wear furs, surely).
(15) Men's concerns, interests, anxieties or even pride in our own gender roles are typically sheltered by the conceits of fiction – as seen in the exquisite 62-hour thesis on modern masculinity that was Breaking Bad – or filtered through protective layers of irony and humour.Social media users recently parodied the internal travails of feminism with the hashtag #MeninistTwitter, but behind the walls of laddish banter and sexism, there were some very real anxieties and resentments on display.
(16) The vox pop – that spurious journalistic conceit – lets reporters seek out quotes to confirm each one's opinions (or for the BBC, just a meaningless one of each).
(17) This is not the first time we have seen arrogance and conceit from Mr Mellor.
(18) "You could see the little girls, fat with complacency and conceit while the little boys sat there crumpled, apologising for their existence, thinking this was going to be the pattern of their lives."
(19) He was the opposite of an egotist, being neither boastful nor conceited, but his professional personality had a streak of the kindly egoist to it.
(20) The conceit was a lie founded on truth, and that four-year hole in his IMDb list, beginning not long after he won a Golden Globe for Walk The Line , is real.
Puppy
Definition:
(n.) The young of a canine animal, esp. of the common dog; a whelp.
(n.) A name of contemptuous reproach for a conceited and impertinent person.
(v. i.) To bring forth whelps; to pup.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
(2) In dogs the prevalence of Toxocara canis was noticeably greater in puppies (56.1%) than in mature animals (11.9%).
(3) CAV2 was not found in airways smooth muscles or nerves, nor in any noninflamed tissues of CAV2 puppies or in control animals.
(4) Four, 57 days old, African hunting dog puppies (Lycaon pictus) from one litter died within three weeks following vaccination with modified-live canine distemper virus (CDV) and killed canine adenovirus type 1, canine parvovirus and Leptospira icterohemorrhagiae and canicola.
(5) Puppies that were continuously on cardiopulmonary bypass had no significant pulmonary changes caused by increasing the inspired oxygen tension in the ventilator; however, striking changes were noted when limited cardiopulmonary bypass was employed for core cooling and total circulatory arrest combined with pulmonary ventilation with 100% oxygen.
(6) Right ventricular septomarginal trabeculae ('false-tendons') from puppies, young adult, and older adult dogs were examined by light and electron microscopy.
(7) Hypothermic circulatory arrest was used after surface cooling in 7 puppies (mean weight, 3.1 kg; range, 1.5 to 4.1 kg).
(8) The pattern of locomotion following a partial movement restraint was studied in five mongrel puppies.
(9) A canine model of anomalous choledochopancreatic ductal junction (APCDJ) was produced by choledochopancreatic end to side ductal anastomosis performed in 77 mongrel puppies weighing between 1.5 and 5 kg.
(10) Intra-epithelial lymphocyte numbers were lowest in 33- to 37-day-old puppies infected with greater than 127 T. canis and highest in 44- to 46-day-old puppies losing their infection.
(11) Allen announced a new comedy, Puppy Love, set in a dog training class, written by the creators of acclaimed Jo Brand sitcom Getting On.
(12) Inulin extraction (E(In)) remained constant during the first month of life and was the same in the new-born and adult dog suggesting that preglomerular shunting of plasma away from functioning nephrons was the same for both the puppy and adult dog.4.
(13) There was a substantial complications decrease in the first puppies, but do not stop at all contamination in the bile duct tree and liver.
(14) One thing she has to overcome is the perception that a young woman in the environmental movement is just a “puppy cuddler”, as she calls it.
(15) Twenty-three puppies with cranofacial and limb abnormalities from a family of Australian shepherd dogs were studied anatomically.
(16) But everyone knows that the scars of their 3-0 loss to the Americans in the 1930 World Cup are still fresh, so expect the Belgians to scamper around like puppies in a pile of bones play like men with the weight of the world on their shoulders tonight, and for the American Outlaws to be making pointed references to Uruguay 30 from the stands throughout.
(17) Posterior cricoarytenoid (PCA), thyroarytenoid (TA) and diaphragmatic activities were monitored in conscious puppies (13-43 days old) using chronically implanted electrodes.
(18) "These animals go on to die of gangrene or other secondary infections, sometimes leaving nursing puppies abandoned to fend for themselves."
(19) This study examined the effects and interactions evoked by various combinations of parasympathetic (P) and sympathetic (S) stimulations on sinus node automaticity and atrioventricular (AV) conduction (both anterograde and retrograde) in 11 two-mo old anesthetized puppies.
(20) In fact, the first things that strike you about the album are the soulful vocals of Sampha – whose voice does "hurt" better than a wounded puppy – and its deft, garage-inspired rhythms.