Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; SYN. egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen, swollen-headed, vain.
Presumptuously arrogant; SYN. uppity.
Arrogantly excessive.
Exaggeratedly proper; SYN. prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, straightlaced, tight-laced, victorian.
(Homonym: vane, vein).
1. Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.
2. Destitute of forge or efficacy; effecting no purpose; fruitless; ineffectual.
3. Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited.
4. Showy; ostentatious.
(Homonym: vane, vein).
Arrogantly, conceitedly, vainly; jauntily
In a conceited manner; SYN. self-conceitedly, with conceit.
In a priggish manner.