N. affectation, affectedness, acting a part, pretense, (ostentation) 882,
boasting,
charlatanism,
quackery, shallow profundity, pretension, airs,
pedantry,
purism,
precisianism,
euphuism,
teratology,
mannerism, simagree,
grimace,
conceit,
foppery,
dandyism, man millinery,
coxcombry,
puppyism, stiffness,
formality,
buckram,
prudery,
demureness,
coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie,
sentimentalism, mauvais honte, false shame,
affector, performer,
actor,
pedant,
pedagogue,
doctrinaire,
purist,
euphuist,
mannerist, grimacier, lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking,
poetaster,
prig,
charlatan, petit maitre,
flatterer,
coquette,
prude,
puritan V. affect, act a part, put on, give oneself airs,
boast,
coquet,
simper,
mince,
attitudinize,
pose, flirt a fan, overact,
overdo Adj. affected, full of affectation,
pretentious,
pedantic,
stilted, stagy,
theatrical, big-sounding,
ad captandum,
canting,
insincere, not natural, unnatural,
self-conscious, maniere, artificial, overwrought, overdone, overacted,
euphuist, stiff, starch, formal,
prim,
smug,
demure, tire a quatre epingles,
quakerish,
puritanical,
prudish,
pragmatical,
priggish,
conceited,
coxcomical,
foppish,
dandified,
finical,
finikin,
mincing,
simpering,
namby-pamby,
sentimental Phr. "conceit in weakest bodies strongest works"
Pride Roget’s Thesaurus §878 N. dignity,
self-respect, mens sibi conscia recti, pride,
haughtiness, high notions,
hauteur,
vainglory, crest,
arrogance, proud man,
highflier, fine gentleman, fine lady
V. be proud, put a good face on, look one in the face, stalk abroad, perk oneself up, think no small beer of oneself,
presume,
swagger,
strut, rear one's head, lift up one's head, hold up one's head, hold one's head high, look big, take the wall, "bear like the turk no rival near the throne", carry with a high hand, ride the high horse, mount on one's high horse, set one's back up,
bridle, toss the head, give oneself airs,
boast, pride oneself on, glory in, take a pride in, pique oneself, plume oneself, hug oneself, stand upon, be proud of, put a good face on, not hide one's light under a bushel, not put one's talent in a napkin, not think small beer of oneself
Adj. dignified, stately, proud, proud-crested, lordly,
baronial, lofty-minded, highsouled,
high-minded,
high-mettled,
high-handed, high-plumed,
high-flown,
high-toned, haughty lofty, high, mighty,
swollen, puffed up,
flushed,
blown,
vainglorious,
purse-proud, fine, proud as a peacock, proud as lucifer, bloated with pride,
supercilious,
disdainful,
bumptious,
magisterial,
imperious, high and mighty,
overweening,
consequential,
arrogant,
unblushing, stiff,
stiff-necked, starch, perked stuck-up, in buckram, strait- laced,
prim, on one's dignity, on one's high horses, on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes, on stilts, en grand seigneur
Adv. with head erect
Phr. odi profanum vulgus et arceo, "a duke's revenues on her back", "disdains the shadow which he treads on at noon", "pride in their port, defiance in their eye"
N. vanity,
conceit,
conceitedness,
self-conceit,
self-complacency,
self-confidence,
self-sufficiency,
self-esteem, self- love, self-approbation,
self-praise, self-glorification, self-laudation,
self-gratulation,
self-applause,
self-admiration,
amour propre,
selfishness, airs, affected manner, pretensions,
mannerism,
egotism,
priggism, priggishness,
coxcombry,
gaudery,
vainglory,
elation, pride,
ostentation, assurance, vox et praeterea nihil, cheval de bataille, coxcomb sir oracle
V. be vain, be vain of, pique oneself, lay the flattering unction to one's soul, have too high an opinion of oneself, have an overweening opinion of oneself, have too high an opinion of one's talents, blind oneself as to one's own merit, not think small beer of oneself, not think vin ordinaire of oneself, put oneself forward, fish for compliments, give oneself airs,
boast, render vain, inspire with vanity,
inflate, puff up, turn up, turn one's head
Adj. vain, vain as a peacock, proud as a peacock,
conceited,
overweening,
pert, forward,
vainglorious,
high-flown,
ostentatious, puffed up, inflated,
flushed,
self-satisfied,
self-confident,
self-sufficient,
self-flattering,
self-admiring, self-applauding,
self-glorious, self-opinionated, entente, wise in one's own conceit,
pragmatical, overwise,
pretentious,
priggish,
egotistic,
egotistical,
soi-disant,
arrogant,
unabashed,
unblushing,
unconstrained,
unceremonious, free and easy
Adv. vainly
Phr. "how we apples swim!", "prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk"
N. boasting,
boast,
vaunt, crake|, pretense, pretensions,
puff,
puffery,
flourish,
fanfaronade,
gasconade,
blague,
bluff, gas*, highfalutin,
highfaluting, hot air, spread-eagleism,
brag,
braggardism,
bravado,
bunkum,
buncombe,
jactitation,
jactancy,
bounce, venditation|,
vaporing,
rodomontade,
bombast, fine talking, tall talk,
magniloquence, teratology|, heroics,
chauvinism,
exaggeration, vanity, vox et praeterea nihil, much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen,
exultation, gloriation|,
glorification, flourish of trumpets, triumph,
boaster,
braggart,
braggadocio,
gascon,
fanfaron, pretender,
soi-disant, blower,
bluffer, foxy quiller,
blusterer,
charlatan, jack-pudding,
trumpeter,
puppy V. boast, make a boast of,
brag,
vaunt,
puff, show off,
flourish, crake|,
crack,
trumpet,
strut,
swagger,
vapor,
blague, blow, four- flush *,
bluff,
exult,
crow, crow over,
neigh,
chuckle, triumph, throw up one's cap, talk big, se faire valoir, faire claquer son fouet, take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing io triumphe, holloa before one is out of the wood
Adj. boasting,
magniloquent, flaming, thrasonic,
stilted,
gasconading,
braggart,
boastful,
pretentious,
soi-disant,
vainglorious, highfalutin,
highfaluting,
spread-eagle,
elate,
elated,
jubilant,
triumphant,
exultant, in high feather,
flushed, flushed with victory,
cock-a-hoop, on stilts,
vaunted Phr. "let the galled jade wince", facta non verba
