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pomposity
noun as in pretension
Strong matches
noun as in grandiloquence
Strongest match
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Example Sentences
Critics sometimes faulted his performances for pomposity.
His personality traits that alienate average Americans — his contempt, his pomposity, his unvarnished misogyny — are attractive in the upside-down world of MAGA.
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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