pompousness

Example Sentences

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I don’t want the rigidness of it all and the pompousness.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2020

“Taking the piss” is a term British people came up with that means putting a pin in the balloon of pompousness with of absurdity.

From The Verge • May 31, 2018

Cree Carrico and Daniel Okulitch provide the needed flamboyance as Rosemary Kennedy and LBJ, as does Casey Finnigan, the pompousness for Khrushchev.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2016

“So if you take away all the pompousness, what are you left with?” asked the soft-spoken government attorney Inga Bejer Engh.

From Salon • May 17, 2012

But a mischievous cat on the sidewalk stood, No coat, no hat had she; So she laughed at the dress and the pompousness Of the dog and his family.

From Curious Creatures by Anonymous