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pomposity::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness |
| Type of | inelegance |
| Derivation | pompous |
Examples of pomposity
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Beyond five minutes, the theory goes, lay pomposity, tedium and unmarketability.
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Eileen Herlie strives for imperiousness and achieves glacial suburban pomposity.
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Yet the beauty of the Transformers franchise is its limited room for pomposity.
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Simon Jones, all pomposity and ambition, silkily plays a pseudocerebral reviewer.
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It may not be up there with one of Doddy's, but it showed a lack of pomposity.
From the independent.co.uk
If you didn't appreciate his pomposity he'd stick a different finger in your face.
From the dailyherald.com
Because moral pomposity is almost always a camouflage for baser fears and desires.
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And the pomposity-busting power of such dishes leads us to love them all the more.
From the guardian.co.uk
In an industry filled with pomposity, Brown injects some much-needed comic relief.
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- Ostentation: lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
- (pompous) grandiloquent: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
- (pompous) characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display
- The quality of being pompous; self-importance
- (pompous) Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important
