Word Meanings - PUPPYISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Extreme meanness, affectation, conceit, or impudence. A. Chalmers.

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• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• EXTREMELESS
  Having no extremes; infinite.
• CONCEITEDLY
  1. In an egotistical manner. 2. Fancifully; whimsically.
• CONCEITEDNESS
  The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity. Addison.
• CONCEIT
  conception, fr. concipere to conceive: cf. OF. p. p. nom. conciez 1. That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception. In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous. Bacon. A man wise
• AFFECTATION
  1. An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show. "An affectation of contempt." Macaulay. Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty
• EXTREME
  Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth. Extreme and mean ratio , the relation of a line and its segments when the line is so divided that the whole is to the greater
• CONCEITLESS
  Without wit; stupid. Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless. To be seduced by thy flattery Shak.
• MEANNESS
  1. The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess. This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison. 2. A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness.
• IMPUDENCE
  The quality of being impudent; assurance, accompanied with a disregard of the presence or opinions of others; shamelessness; forwardness; want of modesty. Clear truths that their own evidence forces us to admit, or common experience makes
• CONCEITED
  1. Endowed with fancy or imagination. He was . . . pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit. Knolles. 2. Entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self; vain. If you think me too conceited Or to passion quickly heated. Swift. Conceited of their
• EXTREMELY
  In an extreme manner or state; in the utmost degree; to the utmost point; exceedingly; as, extremely hot or cold.
• SELF-CONCEIT
  Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments. Syn. -- See Egotism.
• SELF-CONCEITED
  Having an overweening opinion of one's own powers, attainments; vain; conceited. -- Self`-con*ceit"ed*ness, n.
• MISCONCEIT
  Misconception.
• PRECONCEIT
  An opinion or notion formed beforehand; a preconception. Hooker.
• INAFFECTATION
  Freedom from affectation; naturalness.