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synonyms for pompous
- boastful
- bombastic
- grandiose
- imperious
- overbearing
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- self-centered
- self-important
- selfish
- affected
- bloated
- conceited
- flatulent
- flaunting
- flowery
- fustian
- grandiloquent
- high-and-mighty
- highfalutin
- high-flown
- important
- inflated
- magisterial
- magniloquent
- narcissistic
- orotund
- ostentatious
- overblown
- pontifical
- portentous
- puffed-up
- rhetorical
- showy
- sonorous
- stuck-up
- supercilious
- turgid
- uppity
- vain
- vainglorious
- windy
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How to use pompous in a sentence
This year, the show has even resurrected Eliot Ness, seen making a pompous speech to reporters about bringing Capone to justice.
'Boardwalk Empire' Left New Jersey and Lost Its Way | Allen Barra | September 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe dialogue is pure McCarthy as well: clipped, resonant, near-Biblical—and somewhat pompous.
‘The Counselor’ & How Cormac McCarthy Beat the Hollywood Curse | Andrew Romano | October 26, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIs it pompous to wonder why, as a working journalist, Wikipedia affords the other guy that title?
The Dangers of Trusting Wikipedia With Your Life | Michael Moynihan | April 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
But he still has the cojones to speak his mind: Thomas Freidman is a ‘pompous ass.’
Ed Koch at 88: New York’s Still-Outspoken Ex-Mayor Holds No Grudges | Lloyd Grove | January 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMan is a Noble Animal,” Browne wrote, “splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
Halloween Read: Thomas Browne’s Eerie Premonition of His Burial | Stefan Beck | October 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTSubsequent facts, however, proved these pompous vows to be merely a figure of speech.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanOn the contrary, Mr. Ducksmith loved to talk—in a dismal, pompous way—chiefly of British politics.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeThe opportunity came presently, for Lady Merehaven was called away, leaving a pompous old diplomat to wait on the queen.
The Weight of the Crown | Fred M. WhiteShe felt almost pompous with the sense of playing her part in a great event, fancied herself, perhaps, its central figure.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonA handsome soldier on a restive bay mare came next, and behind him a huge touring car with a pompous black chauffeur.
The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch | Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
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