pompous
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Pompous and self-important, it sounded as if the newspaper was really trying to say Without the Washington Post, we’re all screwed.
From Slate • Mar. 1, 2025
Pompous, handshaking, smiling Richard William Reading was mayor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pompous but kindly, he likes to lecture his men.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pompous, handshaking Mayor Richard W. Reading professed that all was civic virtue�until he was found guilty of graft.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet, when his Muse, complying with his will, Deigns with informing heat his Breast to fill, Then hear him thunder in the Pompous strain Of Æschylus, or sooth in Ovid's vein.
From Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) by Cobb, Samuel
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