pompousness

Example Sentences

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“He approached the work with a lot of humility. There wasn’t any pompousness about him,” said Edward Padilla, former lead youth educator at Casa 0101 and a family friend.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2024

Grant plays Sinclair with tremendous brio, capturing his pompousness and authority as with some bon mots about good writers "stealing" work.

From Salon • Jul. 6, 2023

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

His knighthood, granted in 1918, and an inevitable increase in waist measurement emphasised his pompousness without diminishing his fussiness.

From Lady Bountiful by Birmingham, George A.