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pompous
adjective as in arrogant, egotistic
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This year, the show has even resurrected Eliot Ness, seen making a pompous speech to reporters about bringing Capone to justice.
The dialogue is pure McCarthy as well: clipped, resonant, near-Biblical—and somewhat pompous.
Is it pompous to wonder why, as a working journalist, Wikipedia affords the other guy that title?
But he still has the cojones to speak his mind: Thomas Freidman is a ‘pompous ass.’
Man is a Noble Animal,” Browne wrote, “splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
Subsequent facts, however, proved these pompous vows to be merely a figure of speech.
On the contrary, Mr. Ducksmith loved to talk—in a dismal, pompous way—chiefly of British politics.
The opportunity came presently, for Lady Merehaven was called away, leaving a pompous old diplomat to wait on the queen.
She felt almost pompous with the sense of playing her part in a great event, fancied herself, perhaps, its central figure.
A handsome soldier on a restive bay mare came next, and behind him a huge touring car with a pompous black chauffeur.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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