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pompous person

noun as in elitist

noun as in stuffed shirt

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Example Sentences

This young man, who was rather a pompous person, saw fit to take me to task at a table where a number of us were dining together.

We see an overbearing pompous person who is filled with the emotion of solemnity, and yet he awakens in us the emotion of humor.

This pompous person was succeeded by a tall, upright man, with the bearing of a Viking and the voice of a clarion.

The rich man was Mr. Bentley Broke, a pompous person, who had one child, a son of literary leanings named Otho.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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