pompously

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And the first reason is the announcement of the justice’s forthcoming memoir, which is pompously titled So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2026

"Writers are liars, my dear," Fry pompously tells Calliope after she reminds him that he agreed to free her at the end of his life.

From Salon • Aug. 26, 2022

Kelsey Grammer returns to the boards as the pompously verbose but insecure psychiatrist from “Cheers.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2022

Needless to say, Eliot’s later ruminations as a public intellectual, though sometimes pompously expressed, remain touchstones of traditional conservative thought.

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2022

“How much mercury would it take to reduce two gills of white sulfur?” he asked pompously, as if I’d already given the wrong answer.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss