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puffed-up
adjective as in pompous
Weak matches
- affected
- bloated
- boastful
- bombastic
- conceited
- flatulent
- flaunting
- flowery
- fustian
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- high-and-mighty
- high-flown
- highfalutin
- hoity-toity
- imperious
- important
- inflated
- magisterial
- magniloquent
- narcissistic
- orotund
- ostentatious
- overbearing
- overblown
- pontifical
- portentous
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- puffy
- rhetorical
- self-centered
- self-important
- selfish
- showy
- sonorous
- stuck-up
- supercilious
- turgid
- uppity
- vain
- vainglorious
- windy
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Example Sentences
In footage filmed for the BBC by a local journalist in Gaza at one of the few remaining bakeries in the centre of the strip, a stream of hot puffed-up pitas roll out of an oven on a conveyor belt.
From BBC
It’s a huge blow to his puffed-up brand.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s a huge blow to his puffed-up brand.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s a huge blow to his puffed-up brand.
From Los Angeles Times
In a way, that makes sense, given Ethan’s puffed-up prose.
From New York Times
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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