pompous
IPA: pˈɑmpʌs
adjective
- Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
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Examples of "pompous" in Sentences
- The captain is very pompous.
- The man is very pompous and arrogant.
- He is pompous and cruel to the animals.
- That seems a little pompous and obsequious.
- I was out of order with the pompous comment.
- The alternative seems turgid, bordering on pompous.
- Being called pompous by Will is high praise indeed.
- He is pompous but likeable captain of the Black Pig.
- What you call pompous, some call "necessary changes."
- The sentences are too long, and the language is pompous.
- Sorry if that seems a little pompous and obsequious, but it's true.
- In general, the architecture was to be either pompous and impersonal.
- Being pompous is one thing, having a genuine knowledge of something is quite different.
- As Jon Stewart deftly demonstrates, the way to puncture the pompous is to poke a sharp stick at their soft underbelly.
- Stevie Bloom: I feel bad about making ad-homs, but whenever I see your posts, the word pompous comes to mind immediately.
- Gibbon is sometimes called pompous, but place him by the side of Alison and what one may have previously called pompousness one now calls dignity.
- Keep in mind that the denizens of the Yankee Stadium bleachers actually do a chant for John Sterling, the Ted Baxter of play-by-play in other words, a pompous hack, so their taste should automatically be questioned.
- Hijda Nights, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1. through the crowded bazars of haji malang the only sight hijda nights bedecked bejewelled garish and bright in pompous flight captured in the inner vision of a lens of a Shiite
- Mr. Crummles and the whole of his theatrical business is an admirable case of that first and most splendid quality in Dickens -- I mean the art of making something which in life we call pompous and dull, becoming in literature pompous and delightful.
- 53 His addresses to the eastern throne were respectful and ambiguous: he celebrated, in pompous style, the harmony of the two republics, applauded his own government as the perfect similitude of a sole and undivided empire, and claimed above the kings of the earth the same preeminence which he modestly allowed to the person or rank of