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• s  characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
  an attitude of self-conceited arrogance

• In one typical effort, DogoodFranklin needled Harvard for turning out budding scholars who were "as great blockheads as ever, only more proud and self-conceited.

• conceited
• egotistic
• egotistical
• swollen
• swollen-headed
• vain