pompousness

Example Sentences

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Each man embodies a version of Hollywood's self-aggrandizing pompousness.

From Salon • Aug. 19, 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

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

Granted he was pompous; with a little more pompousness her mother would have come more creditably out of that old affair.

From The Story of Louie by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]