conceit in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

conceit in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for conceit in the English»Italian Dictionary

conceit Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be full of conceit
essere presuntuoso

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It's an interesting conceit, but sadly it fails.
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The conceit was equally witty, and also worked to advance the poets understanding of himself, derived not from ideal principles but from observation and intuition.
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All novelty rests in the conceit of computer authorship, not in the story itself.
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The poetry depends on extended, sometimes elaborate metaphors and conceits, and the language is often rhetoricalwritten for actors to declaim rather than speak.
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It's not like the show's original conceit doesn't make sense anymore.
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The whole dialogue is but a string of brilliant conceits, which, if not delivered well, are tedious and unintelligible.
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However, there are other corollary differences resulting from the justifications implied by that main conceit.
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Some songs feature a lyrical conceit of an emotionally elusive lover as an apparition or an illusion.
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He was sublimely egotistical, but somehow his egotism did not smack of conceit and was not offensive.
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In fact, the stylistic conceit is by now so hackneyed that even the most impeccable execution isn't enough to make it compelling.
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