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pomposity

noun as in pretension

noun as in grandiloquence

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His personality traits that alienate average Americans — his contempt, his pomposity, his unvarnished misogyny — are attractive in the upside-down world of MAGA.

From Salon

Don Wright, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist whose pointed work punctured duplicity and pomposity and resonated with common-sense readers, died on March 24 at his home in Palm Beach, Fla. He was 90.

I love the Oscars, with all their pageantry and pomposity.

There's a remarkable lack of pomposity or formality on such trips when he goes out to meet the public.

From BBC

“There’s so much pomposity in saying ‘legacy’ when I already have a hard enough time accepting any sort of compliments or hearing that my band did anything significant,” he said.

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