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pomposity

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pom·pous  (pmps)
adj.
1. Characterized by excessive self-esteem or exaggerated dignity; pretentious: pompous officials who enjoy giving orders.
2. Full of high-sounding phrases; bombastic: a pompous proclamation.
3. Chracterized by pomp or stately display; ceremonious: a pompous occasion.
[Middle English, from Old French pompeux, from Late Latin pompsus, from Latin pompa, pomp; see pomp.]
pom·posi·ty (-ps-t), pompous·ness (-ps-ns) n.
pompous·ly adv.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.pomposity - lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
ostentatiousness, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness, ostentation, puffiness, inflation
inelegance - the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
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pomposity pomp


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said the husband, with the absurd pomposity of his tribe.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
But though he had a fine flux of words, and delivered his little voice with great pomposity and pleasure to himself, and never advanced any sentiment or opinion which was not perfectly trite and stale, and supported by a Latin quotation; yet he failed somehow, in spite of a mediocrity which ought to have insured any man a success.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
Personally, he was an intellectual moralist, and more offending to him than platitudinous pomposity was the morality of those about him, which was a curious hotchpotch of the economic, the metaphysical, the sentimental, and the imitative.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
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