Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
self-opinionated .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a high opinion of one's self; opinionated; conceited.
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Examples
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People who think they're enlightened usually, in actuallity, are very self-opinioned, and small minded.
Message Bases the Alter Reality BBS 1990
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A person who remains all his life in his own town is generally narrow-minded, self-opinioned, and selfish.
America, through the spectacles of an Oriental diplomat Tingfang Wu 1882
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With all his strong and sterling qualities he was regarded by the world in general, as, perhaps, a little hard and self-opinioned.
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Bradstreet was a New England officer who had been a captain in the last war, somewhat dogged and self-opinioned, but brave, energetic, and well fitted for this kind of service.
Montcalm and Wolfe Francis Parkman 1858
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And there is nothing more loathsome and offensive to discreet ears, than the loose, indigested, incoherent babble of some bold, self-opinioned persons, who in their talk are senseless and endless.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823
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The seven Bonzas, represented by the seven kites, were already in the hall, with a confirmed impudence, and so much the more haughty, as they had the less reason so to be; according to the usual character of vain and self-opinioned men.
The Works of John Dryden Dryden, John, 1631-1700 1808
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The seven Bonzas, represented by the seven kites, were already in the hall, with a confirmed impudence, and so much the more haughty, as they had the less reason so to be; according to the usual character of vain and self-opinioned men.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16 John Dryden 1665
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James; “for we ourselves, and those of our Court and household, as thou thyself, for example, are allowed by the English, for as self-opinioned as they are, to pass for reasonable good wits; but the brains of those we have left behind are all astir, and run clean hirdie-girdie, like sae mony warlocks and witches on the Devil’s
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"I do not doubt that Mr. Western is what he should be," the letter went on, "but even judging him by your letter, I find that he is autocratic and self-opinioned.
Kept in the Dark Anthony Trollope 1848
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Such persons may (latter themselves as they please; but the gospel must alter its voice, and say, Blessed are the proud in spirit, the censorious, the insolent, and self-opinioned, before they can either have any solid ground of comfort, or real title to a blessing.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823
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