Word: self-conceit
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...intervene, then I'm out. I don't think I will have anything to do with it. But right now everything is under control and manageable by me. Don't worry. I know everything; I know everybody. I say this without the slightest trace of self-conceit. The whole sense of this country is that we must have legal and constitutional government. The moment has passed for government by the conquest of arms. A legal government is the only solution...
...Brown's definition: "A human trifler, a man of straw and self-conceit ... in the popinjay class ... To call a man a niffle is to put him in his place, which is next to nowhere...
Niffle meant a "human trifler, a man of straw and self-conceit ... in the popinjay class ... To call a man a niffle is to put him in his place, which is next to nowhere...
...Mayor Roger D. Lapham's administrative assistant, David Lewis: "We are taking up Romans' now because that Book is an exposition of the law of a Christian. There are some attorneys in the group and we decided to start there. It is a thorough going-over of self-conceit and pride."* The group, organized 14 weeks ago, began reading Romans, hoped to discuss a chapter a week. But some discussions were so long the group has only reached Chapter...
...hoped, that the axiom in this instance may justly apply. These references have to do with your editorial of February thirteenth, in which, under the nom de plume Nemo, and with freedom of expression that is startlingly unique, you crack open the nut of smug, self-conceit, and expose the "Kernel" (Charles A. Lindbergh) in most commendable fashion...