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

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

“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

The nurses," rejoined the doctor with a pompousness which somehow irritated Luke, "will have my authorization to forbid any one having access to Lord Radclyffe for the present.

From The Heart of a Woman by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness