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
Gibbon is sometimes called pompous, but place him by the side of Alison and what one may have previously called pompousness one now calls dignity.
From Historical Essays by James Ford Rhodes
