pompous

Example Sentences

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Mr. Broderick, himself a sometime movie star, brings a slyly funny air of noblesse oblige that dovetails amusingly with Jay’s pompous, blinkered dimness.

From The Wall Street Journal

An impersonation of the pompous, blustering second lieutenant.

From Literature

The unmistakably pompous uncle of the female lead flipped the table, throwing everything on it into the air.

From BBC

Adek was a pompous twit who happened to be the son of my mother’s friend, and so occasionally we were forced to dine together.

From Literature

But as the satirically pompous, high-strung Moira Rose, the uncomfortably broke former soap opera queen and matriarch of the hit Canadian sitcom “Schitt’s Creek,” O’Hara achieved universal acclaim and endless memeability.

From Salon