Fragen über die Beispielsätze mit, und die Definition und Benutzung von "Conceit"

A: Grisly is an adjective that describes something as horrible, disgusting, or gruesome.

Conceit, in this context, refers to a comparison between two dissimilar things.

The "conceit" in this case would be the phrase "new murders" which is a "conceit" because murders cannot be new. Murder is only called "murder" because the action of "murdering" has been committed. Therefore, by the time a murder is discovered, it can no longer be "new."

The narrator uses the term "grisly" because murders are gruesome and because the terminology "new murders" is inherently flawed, but for lack of a better term, the narrator used the phrase "new murders" anyways.

Hopefully this answers your question. I understand why the sentence appears to be confusing.

A: "Conceit" usually means something like "narcissism", "vanity", "egotism", and so on, but in this case, it's using a rarer meaning of "idea" or "conception", especially an idea that's not true or overexaggerated.

Basically, there's a rumor going around that he was a heavy drinker in the 80s and he's concerned by that.

A: Alarmed is extremely concerned or worried, shocked at himself.
Drunk is inebriated, intoxicated with alcohol. He spent most of the 1980's means he lost almost 10 years of his life, due to his alcoholic withdrawal from real life.

A: He is aware that he is conceited.
To be conceited is to be 'vain' or very pleased with yourself to the point of arrogance.

A: Conceit means someone is full of themselves -- they think they're better than other people.

Vanity means they highly value appearances, perhaps even more than they value substance.

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A: "It's very conceited to think that a language with letters is superior to one without letters."

It's a bit more common to use the word "conceited" than "conceit", but that makes complete sense and you have great grammar too!

A: Do you mean "It is conceited, but it is true?"