Word: conceitedly
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...Vanity & Conceit...
...disposition, like his ulcers, was better. He still knew that he was the greatest baseball player alive, but now he talked as if he were only as good in his business as many others are in theirs. He no longer called himself the "Great Di Maggio," now resented conceit in other ballplayers. He was actually getting to be good company...
Housman could indulge in depths of unblushing self-pity; but he could also write the magnificent Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle. His gift for epigram and poetic conceit was too glib, but he could also write...
...what is fear? It is conceit: Knowing sufficient of the future to dislike it. And insufficient to ignore it, it is self-love implicit...
Baldwin thought it high time Congress began to find out why all this should be. "For only by getting the facts ... no matter how punishing to our conceit-can we rid ourselves of the national habit of boastful self-deceit...