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
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
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
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