pompous person
Example Sentences
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In the meantime, this is a good lesson for your daughter about getting along with difficult people, because Dr. Horgarth is not the only pompous person she will encounter.
From Slate • Mar. 9, 2015
"Often she has caught my eye when a slightly pompous person is executing a ceremonial gambit," confesses an old friend of Elizabeth's, "and we both have to look away hastily to keep from laughing."
From Time Magazine Archive
The rich man was Mr. Bentley Broke, a pompous person, who had one child, a son of literary leanings named Otho.
From Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 31, 1916 by Various
We see an overbearing pompous person who is filled with the emotion of solemnity, and yet he awakens in us the emotion of humor.
From The Photoplay A Psychological Study by Münsterberg, Hugo
“Kindly wait here, sir, while I acquaint her ladyship with your arrival,” said the pompous person with the eyebrows, and went out noiselessly, closing the door behind him.
From The Mistress of Shenstone by Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)
