pompous
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The result, typically, is more pompous than practical.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
“Gracious, very kind and not pompous, which is what I would expect from most politicians,” Delilah said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
Mr. Broderick, himself a sometime movie star, brings a slyly funny air of noblesse oblige that dovetails amusingly with Jay’s pompous, blinkered dimness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
"BASIL!" - the unmistakable sound of Sybil Fawlty admonishing her pompous and incompetent husband, is probably how Prunella Scales will best be remembered.
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025
He had always been straightforward with me—more so than most of the others—but when he described the white mouse who had been given intelligence, he was as pompous and artificial as the others.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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