conceitedly

Concededly is too likely to be confused with conceitedly.

A long thin cigarette dangled conceitedly from one corner of a curled lip.

"Close your eyes and dream of me," he replied conceitedly, just before a blue satin pillow bounced off his stomach.

Ernie said conceitedly, "You foreign chaps wouldn't rightly catch on.

Then he straightened his tie conceitedly.

He grinned conceitedly under his mask.

Not conceitedly, but matter-of-factly.

Purist--An angler who doesn't catch any fish, because he uses only dry flies the size of dandruff, often conceitedly refers to himself as a purist.

The journalist and noted atheist Christopher Hitchens likewise found it a "cringe-making proposal that atheists should conceitedly nominate themselves to be called 'brights.'"

Tibet was gobbling steaks; Sosthenna was declaiming conceitedly; Somnanda was asleep, his candle guttering low.

I suppose, conceitedly, people give me parts like Lear or Lambert Le Roux in 'Pravda' because they see some force of energy in my own personality.

Hadzivat speaks conceitedly using archaic words, pretending to be wise and in actuality being a boringly pedant, rigid, corruptible, opportunist who constantly emphasizes his aristocratic origin.

'Mars arrayed by Venus,' said I, conceitedly, but Mary had never heard of either Mars or Venus before, so the conceit and the flattery were lost upon her.

"Can you imagine," Ferfitchkin interrupted hotly and conceitedly, like some insolent flunkey boasting of his master the General's decorations, "can you imagine that Zverkov will let us pay alone?

For a while Mozart listened patiently; when he could bear it no longer and the fault-finder once more conceitedly declared: 'I would not have done that', Mozart retorted: 'Neither would I but do you know why?