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
When I did finally approach Brooks’ column it was with the usual sense of dread; I was particularly not in the mood for his well-established self-satisfaction, his pompousness, his condescension wrapped in smugness.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2015
Dr. Burton was the most conspicuous one of the group, from his very pompousness.
From The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion, by Pinkerton, Allan
