pompous person

Example Sentences

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In the meantime, this is a good lesson for your daughter about getting along with difficult people, because Dr. Horgarth is not the only pompous person she will encounter.

From Slate • Mar. 9, 2015

"Often she has caught my eye when a slightly pompous person is executing a ceremonial gambit," confesses an old friend of Elizabeth's, "and we both have to look away hastily to keep from laughing."

From Time Magazine Archive

This young man, who was rather a pompous person, saw fit to take me to task at a table where a number of us were dining together.

From The Story of a Pioneer by Shaw, Anna Howard

“I don’t think he is nearly so conceited,” Sophy contended, “as the pompous person you delight in encouraging to make a fool of himself.”

From Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor by Young, F.E. Mills

At the sight of this pompous person, whose meddling threatened so much trouble to his dear ones, the indignation which Tessibel's words had in a measure quieted, flared up anew.

From The Secret of the Storm Country by Hitchcock, Lucius W.