Conceits is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONCEITS in dictionary:

VERB:
• CONCEIT, to form a conception of
NOUN:
• excessive pride in oneself
• an ingenious or fanciful comparison or metaphor
• an artistic effect or device
• a fanciful notion
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to imagine

Words related to CONCEITS

conceit11 conceited14 conceiting15

Words that contain CONCEITS

misconceits17 preconceits17

How to use CONCEITS in a sentence

• Therefore thus it goeth, when we give up ourselves to our own foolish fancies and conceits.
• Finding, much to her own surprise, that her fancy was teeming with lovely conceits, she did hope for a quiet evening.
• It was, moreover, full of rhetorical exaggerations, and disfigured with conceits.
• Smith among the number, will some day feel the exquisite unfitness of using such conceits as we have just quoted, or any other, page after page, for all characters and chances.
• Loose conceits, fancies of the private judgment, were excusable enough in the Elizabethan poets.
• The conceits of the metaphysical school appear in Herrick only in the form of an occasional pretty quaintness.
• But there are more great wits besides Chaucer, whose fault is their excess of conceits, and those ill sorted.
• Some advantage they might gain merely by priority, which put them in possession of the most natural sentiments, and left us nothing but servile repetition or forced conceits.
• But these frail assurances, that were but conceits made by the mind while it marked time before charging the dreaded truth, were overcome by the strangeness of this place.
• Sponge seeming rather to take a pleasure in finding ridiculous likenesses, instead of helping his host out in his conceits.
• And in Cowley there is an inexhaustible fund of sense and ingenuity, buried in inextricable conceits, and entangled in the cobwebs of the schools.
• Full of allegorical conceits and personified qualities, it will hardly please the taste of modern minds.
• The men laughed at what they thought was one of his strange conceits, and so we escaped suspicion.
• The conceits as to a future life entertained by the Mexicans varied considerably from those of their neighbors of Peru.
• They have an incorrigible habit of speaking in conceits.
• I am happy thus to have had my little holiday along with you in this ideal region of quaint conceits.
• The supper-tables are almost always adorned by some of the pretty, quaint conceits of an artist, whose fame extends far beyond Baltimore.
• This empty Fellow has laughed upon these Conceits ever since.
• I consider books of dreams to be full of idle conceits.
• In the northern centre whence a model orchestra has long shed a beneficent influence far afield, the touch of new French conceits has colored some of the ablest works.
• The Treasury of Commodious Conceits and Hidden Secrets.
• The very plots of his plays are realized metaphors or embodied conceits.
• Its object is the same as that of reason, but its method is to proceed by intuition and by unchecked poetical conceits.
• He has all the conceits and strained wit of the metaphysical school.
• False and boastful conceits and phrases mount upwards and take their place.

Similar words containing NCEIT without suffix s and without prefix co

conceit11 conceity15 conceited14 conceitful17 conceiting15 misconceit16 preconceit16 conceitedly19 conceitless15 misconceits17 preconceits17 misconceited19 preconceited19 conceitedness18 misconceiting20 preconceiting20 conceitednesses20

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