Engreído in english
Conceited
pronunciation: kənsitəd part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: kənsitəd part of speech: adjective
In gestures
engreído1 = snob ; big head ; poseur.
Example: The biggest faux pas according to snobs who take such things seriously is calling a sofa a couch or a setee.Example: You've got such a big head that you could never live with yourself unless you could put us all to shame.Example: This is an interesting little town wholly populated by poseurs and backpackers with a few salty sea dogs thrown in for good measure.more:
» ser un engreído = be full of + Reflexivo .
Example: That gets on my nerves, they are cocky and full of themselves.engreído2 = conceited ; self-inflated ; stuck-up ; self-important ; cocky ; high-blown ; snobbish ; snobby ; haughty ; hoity-toity ; vain ; cocksure ; supercilious ; big-headed ; uppity ; self-opinionated ; uppish ; bumptious ; poncey [poncy].
Example: She wanted to say: 'You are a conceited, obstinate, inflexible, manipulative, pompous, close-minded, insensitive, abrasive, opinionated, platitudinous oaf!'.Example: Book clubs do not have to be cliquish, pretentious, stuffily self-inflated, or bolt-holes for ethereal literary spirits.Example: library users were stereotyped as old people, intellectuals, uninteresting people, shy or stuck-up people and people afraid of life.Example: He was described as 'a self-important, self-righteous blowhard, puffing his filthy pipe, patches on the elbows of his well-worn tweed jacket, decked out in the cliche costume of the shabby liberal icon'.Example: Bold, ambitious and in-your-face I've always considered them to be just too cocky by half.Example: In our media saturated world of high-blown hype and suffocating spin they do their best to tell you the truth.Example: It was possible to identify 3 main groups who display 3 different types of attitude -- participative, delegative and 'snobbish'.Example: Every one looked like death warmed up, including the snobby staff who I found far from welcoming.Example: The only blot on his escutcheon is, that after his great success he grew to be haughty and insolent in his demands.Example: Wine lovers get the urge to splurge and celebrate, often in hoity-toity restaurants.Example: The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous.Example: The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.Example: A commenter took me to task for being supercilious and said it was inconsistent with my religion.Example: I alwasy knew she was a pain in the arse, without knowing her you can just tell, by the way she behaves, that she is big-headed and thinks she's god's gift to the human race.Example: He'd been popular earlier on but was now on thin ice with most members of our class due to his pretension and uppity manner.Example: Garfield shows no basis for his immodesty and self-opinionated progress through life.Example: He had always delighted in ridiculing me by his uppish disobedience, especially in public places.Example: I suppose we might all own up to being a tad bumptious on occasion and when the wind is blowing in the wrong direction.Example: These civil servants like to use such poncey language -- it demonstrates the lack of any connection to the people they are serving.more:
» todo engreído = full of conceit .
Example: I arrived at the airdrome full of conceit, thinking I was a real pilot.