Definitionn. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
Last update: September 20, 2015
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There's no sign of pomposity in her. [Please select]
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Bumble, in a tone of impressive pomposity. [Please select]
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He was a very agreeable companion and a thorough man of the world, singularly free from arrogance and pomposity; owing to his small stature, he was often known as "die kleine Excellenz." [Please select]
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She was walking with insulting pomposity in her most pronounced semicircular manner. [Please select]
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"It shall be done," replied Georges, eying the newcomer with some disfavor because of his pomposity. [Please select]
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The cloak of careful pomposity with which for so many years this poor maimed soul had covered its scars, was dropping away. [Please select]
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McGanum, and James Madison Howland, teetering on their toes near the stove, conversed with the sedate pomposity of the commercialist. [Please select]
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This phenomenon puzzled her very considerably, for Scott was wholly lacking in the pomposity that characterizes many little men. [Please select]
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She made it with so childlike an earnestness, and--all his pomposity notwithstanding--he had a soft heart for children. [Please select]
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Colonel Mansfield with a species of jocose pomposity specially assumed for the occasion, his wife, upright, thin-lipped, forbidding, instinct with wordless disapproval. [Please select]
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Stella broke through his pomposity without effort, giving him both her hands with a simplicity that went straight to his heart. [Please select]
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