pompous ass
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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
In Viola it has a charming heroine; in Malvolio, "sick of self-love," a monumental pompous ass.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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"I come off as a totally arrogant, pompous ass," he says with pride.
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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 Benson, Arthur Christopher