pompous ass
Example Sentences
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There wasn't even a puerility-betraying last sentence gag, lest we all think he really is a pompous ass who doesn't realise that football's all gone to pot.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2011
However, his "unabashed immodesty" and his exceedingly high opinion of himself may eventually reveal this bright young star from the East to be the mere twinkle in the eye of a pompous ass.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir: Your account underlines the fact that no one excels the English in producing a pompous ass.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Viola it has a charming heroine; in Malvolio, "sick of self-love," a monumental pompous ass.
From Time Magazine Archive
Worst of all the scene at the Vicarage, the book held in her slender fingers, her look of bewilderment and distress—what a pompous ass he had been, how stupid and coarse!
From Watersprings by Arthur Christopher Benson
