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"
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"
