pompous

Example Sentences

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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

Dramatically, however, “Sirāt” is at once haphazard and pompous, stalling on its central mystery and throwing in a few flashes of distracting calamity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

Without wanting to sound pompous, "favourite" is a concept I find problematic - I'm a journalist and my job is to be objective.

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2025

Judging by social media, my irrepressible loathing of Leavitt's smug visage and pompous voice makes me typical of my demographic: progressive, college-educated women between the ages of 25 and 65.

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2025

Using a formal style when an informal style is called for results in prose that seems stuffy, pompous, affected, haughty.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker