Synonym: ceremonious, grandiloquent, overblown, pontifical, portentous. Similar words: compound, compound interest, pomp, stamp out, compose, compost, composed, component. Meaning: ['pɑmpəs /'pɒm-] adj. 1. puffed up with vanity 2. characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display.
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31. Instead she said something pompous about having information and wishing to speak privately, before backing out to wait her turn.
32. Had Gabriel publicly insulted him in his cups one night in the Raven, fatally offending that pompous conceit?
33. Jane was cheered by his sagacity and quick eye for the ridiculous - a welcome change from pompous people like the Pyglings.
34. She gathered about her a vast retinue and used to enjoy making pompous processions through the streets of Delhi.
35. They needed to put a little blue collar -- Carolina blue, if you will -- into all that pompous purple.
36. Looking at the pompous, malevolent priest in his humiliation, Jane knew he would never forget what she had done.
37. She took a great deal of satisfaction in seeing the pompous old ass upset.
38. The poems are delivered with the pompous self-importance of an obscure poet addressing a small band of intellectuals.
39. It is the absurdly pompous Pons who ostensibly pieces together the scattered evidence of Urim's past.
40. It sounds rather pompous, I dare say,(www.Sentencedict.com) but I think it was the beginning of understanding without knowing.
41. Reports are commonly prosaic, dull, pompous and patronising and written with selfish disregard for the reader.
42. He felt shamed and humiliated by the officious treatment he received at the hands of the pompous men at Immigration.
43. He can lapse into playground language at moments of stress, or even, at one point, some pompous Hancockian self-pity.
44. For Branson did not appear pompous, overbearing, practised or City-Slicker smooth in the manner of other captains of industry.
45. Angelina wondered whether she would change sides, just to show this pompous young man what she thought of him.
46. He gave a perfect demonstration of how egg on the face leads a pompous body still further into the mire.
47. The headteacher gave a pompous speech about 'the values of learning'.
48. But don't expect much more than pompous doggerel in the words.
49. It rapidly deflated his pompous stance and produced an about-face smart enough to have pleased a drill sergeant.
50. I want no pompous official tours of my unit[sentencedict.com], you understand?
51. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
52. George is what the jury expects of a barrister: grave, a little pompous, a touch dramatic.
53. Well, I said the usual pompous things but I had a good laugh when she rang off.
54. He also finds that he enjoys needling the pompous professors.
55. Throughout the show's history, for instance, Cleese was the very image of pompous, impatient rectitude.
56. I dislike his pompous demeanor.
57. The pompous high-placed imbecile mouthing his platitudes.
58. Its philosophy was a pompous evasion of real things.
59. He is a great, pompous bladder of a man.
60. He is a good man underneath his pompous appearance.
More similar words: compound, compound interest, pomp, stamp out, compose, compost, composed, component, composure, spouse, espouse, composition, discomposure, espousal, decomposition, extemporaneous, compendious, anthropomorphic, pour, spout, pound, outpour, pop out, vapour, pounce, downpour, step out, keep out, drop out, help out.