Pompous

//ˈpɒmpəs//

"Pompous" in a Sentence (12 examples)

It's much too pompous for such a trivial thing.

In all her pompous majesty, carried on the shoulders of the entire football team, stood the de facto queen of the school.

The stylists, in all their pompous, branded majesty, doubted that the girl who had just approached them was fixable: her clothes were greasy, tattered, and devoid of rhinestones and logos.

Don't be such a pompous ass!

You pompous git!

What a pompous ass!

Tom is pompous.

The pompous comportment of this arrogant young wind bag will put off potential voters.

Do people ever accuse you of being pompous?

I think Tom is pompous.

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But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature.

Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous, and tedious; and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Samuel did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief.

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