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

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

With their monster trucks and unearned pompousness, no hometown boy stood a chance of enticing us.

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2016

Nowhere has he been better described than in "Margaret," in the character of Master Elliman, whose mingled pompousness, verbiage, and pedantry, admirably represent the class to which he belonged.

From Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various