pompous
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“Gracious, very kind and not pompous, which is what I would expect from most politicians,” Delilah said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
As the somewhat predictable plot unfolds, Ms. Brown deftly sketches the main characters: a genial Oxford don, a dog-loving manuscript expert, an elegant Austrian scholar, a pompous Princeton professor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
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 ● Mar. 19, 2026
The unmistakably pompous uncle of the female lead flipped the table, throwing everything on it into the air.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
I learned an eclectic smattering of Commonwealth law from a traveling barrister too drunk or too pompous to realize he was lecturing an eight-year-old.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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