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

I love the Oscars, with all their pageantry and pomposity.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2024

There's a remarkable lack of pomposity or formality on such trips when he goes out to meet the public.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2024

She had great difficulty coping with his imperiousness: “I want to play chess!” he’d demand, with all the pomposity of a crown prince talking to a servant.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Rebellious colonists skewered British taxation policies, military blunders and parliamentary pomposities through plays, songs and cartoons that rallied others to the cause of independence and made mass mobilization fun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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

Let her so arrange that we shall see more of each other socially, not in grand fêtes, tiresome dinners, idle pomposities, but in simple and hospitable greetings, in frequent, unrestrained, and easy commune.

From Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various