pomposity

They won us over with their mild pomposity and aloofness, whereas Rapaport’s annoyance wreaks collateral damage like a chronically unbathed person’s odor assails bystanders.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026

Mr. Dirden speaks with a majestic orotundity that evokes a preacher carrying around an invisible pulpit, and exudes a preening pomposity and the requisite vicious abusiveness toward Lucky.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2025

It sometimes has a humorous suggestion of pomposity or officiousness.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2025

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.

From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2024

I learned to prefer peace to war, cleverness to stupidity, love to hate, sensitivity to stoicism, humility to pomposity, reconciliation to hostility, harmony to strife, patience to rashness, gregariousness to misanthropy, creation to annihilation.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

A humorist and actor, his folksy delivery artfully deflated politicians and pomposities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2025

“Love’s Labor’s Lost,” with or without the British “u,” is a very youthful, disjointed text, its thin thread of plot repeatedly cut by clowns, dullards, puns, pomposities and noodling that goes nowhere.

From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2023

From time to time, Mr. Leo devoted his column to skewering the conventions and pomposities of journalistic prose.

From Washington Post ● May 13, 2022

In the Persia of the time, you couldn’t speak or write about the Shah openly, so he called him Marjoribanks, a silly name to make fun of pomposities.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2013

You burden yourself with the intricacies and subserviences, with the tedium and pomposities of Court life!

From The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope