Sentence example with the word 'pompous'

pompous

affected, conceited, embroidered, garish, high-hat, lofty, overelaborate, puffy, sensational, stuffy, vain

Definition adj. puffed up with vanity

Last update: December 4, 2016


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I hate being with pompous families.   [adjective]

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The millionaire was a pompous man who believed he should never wait in line for anything.   [adjective]

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But not in a silly, slightly pompous, today 's editorial in The Dail...   [adjective]

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Still retaining his pompous manner, he said, "She has ordered me to go to a certain merchant in the town and collect a considerable sum of money."   [adjective]

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The excited crowd, generally deluded by their leaders, don't understand a word of what the representative of authority is saying in the pompous official language, and their excitement continues.   [adjective]

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Reeds; she mouthed her words in speaking; her voice was deep, its inflections very pompous, very dogmatical,very intolerable, in short.   [adjective]

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Dr Howley, who was nothing if not pompous, answered that he had come on state business, to which everything, even sleep, must give place.   [Please select]

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No oath is round without the rounded fruit, Nor pompous promise hides the ultimate.   [Please select]

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Oh, the little Bishop--the contrast between him and the fat, pompous rig caught me.   [Please select]

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"Go on, Jimmy don't forget the Merchant has to be pompous and use long words."   [Please select]

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Pompous persons who would wish themselves thought perfect Lions, when known are mostly found arrant Asses.   [Please select]

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