- a variation of pomposity.
pompousness
Example Sentences
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“He approached the work with a lot of humility. There wasn’t any pompousness about him,” said Edward Padilla, former lead youth educator at Casa 0101 and a family friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024
Each man embodies a version of Hollywood's self-aggrandizing pompousness.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2023
I don’t want the rigidness of it all and the pompousness.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2020
“Taking the piss” is a term British people came up with that means putting a pin in the balloon of pompousness with of absurdity.
From The Verge ● May 31, 2018
True, occasionally he lapsed into his favourite pompousness and autocracy, but this made the work more characteristic of the man.
From John Forster by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald
