The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word CONCEIT
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More clues leading to the result CONCEIT
- Fancy musical performance, one for queen
- Fanciful idea concerning church in short quote
- Invention with one not quiet showing vanity
- Vanity of one replacing conductor finally in Prom?
- Vanity of court entertaining in the past is half-forgotten
- Conservative leader in thrall to anti-European magnetism? A fanciful notion!
- Prisoner – cite stranger with complacency
- Colorado and North Carolina tie up arrogance
- Arrogance from Tory-held constituency reportedly
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What does CONCEIT mean?
CONCEIT noun- Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought.
- The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.
- Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
- Opinion, (neutral) judgment.
- Esteem, favourable opinion.
- A novel or fanciful idea; a whim.
- An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
- Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
- Design; pattern.
- To form an idea; to think.
- To conceive.