Which preposition to use with conceited

in Occurrences 10%

This odious Yankee needs combing down; he ran over us so long at college that he is conceited in his own impudence," and Vincent exploded in shouts of laughter.

about Occurrences 5%

We are too conceited about ourselves, by a great deal, and it is good for us that even Chinese shoemakers should come here once in a while, to "take us out of our boots.

about Occurrences 4%

If I had ever been conceited about my personal appearance, that moment would have cured me for good.

of Occurrences 4%

A Most pleasant Comedie of Mucedorus the kings sonne of Valentia and Amadine the Kings daughter of Arragon, with the merie conceites of Mouse.

than Occurrences 3%

Is man more conceited than woman, or more confiding?

in Occurrences 2%

"Many men," saith Gellius, "are very conceited in their inscriptions," "and able" (as Pliny quotes out of Seneca) "to make him loiter by the way that went in haste to fetch a midwife for his daughter, now ready to lie down."

of Occurrences 2%

With feverish thirst and longing, he was drinking in the beauty of the Fairy Queen; and had not Simon Perkins been the dullest of observers, and the least conceited of painters, he must have felt intensely flattered by the effect of his work.

on Occurrences 2%

It would indeed be conceited on our part to claim that we, who are the originators of this new science and its new conclusions, deserve alone the credit for its existence.

as Occurrences 2%

Great lawyers and great statesmen are rarely so egotistical and conceited as poets, novelists, artists, and preachers.

on Occurrences 1%

And then again, as regards criticism, I always thinkit may be very conceited on my partthat

beyond Occurrences 1%

He turned out here a perfect sea urchin, ugly, rough, ill-mannered, and conceited beyond all bounds.

for Occurrences 1%

I scored myself as fanciful and conceited for imagining that there had been anything special in his farewell to me or in the little courtesies he had tendered me during my mother-in-law's illness.

with Occurrences 1%

There's nothing I'd like better than to show the hotel-keepers of Europe a thing or twothey are more conceited with less reason for being so than any other class of men I know.

to Occurrences 1%

" "Of course I shan't call Julia smug and conceited to her face," asserted Nancy encouragingly.

as Occurrences 1%

But that it should be only conceived and conceited as an elevation of nature to a more clear light, in the matter of morality, wherein our Lord is only respected as an heavenly teacher and perfect pattern proposed for imitation, is but a proud, pleasing fancy of self-conceited, darkened, and deluded dreamers, robbing God of the glory of his mercy and goodness; our Lord Jesus Christ of the glory of his grace and merit.

after Occurrences 1%

He asked me last night if I felt conceited about my book; so I said to him, "I like to give people as good as they senddon't you feel a little conceited after that sermon?" on which he gave me a good shaking.

Which preposition to use with  conceited