pompous
Speech parts
1. pompous - Adjective
2. pompous - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style.
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Examples
People talk about 'my career,' but 'career' is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt very privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
James Lipton: The most pompous arrogant failure in history.
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.
Women always think that if they tell a man not to be pompous that will shut him up, but I am an old hand at that game. I know that if a man bides his time his moment will come.
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. (Thomas Browne)