pompous

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

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 • Jan. 30, 2026

His most “persistent hater,” the pompous moralist Cato the Censor, railed at Scipio’s unseemly pride and alleged corruption.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025

Dramatically, however, “Sirāt” is at once haphazard and pompous, stalling on its central mystery and throwing in a few flashes of distracting calamity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

Suddenly I held out my hand and we shook, he gravely, from the pompous height of his municipal and military dream.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner