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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Pompous conduct or character; pompousness; ostentation.
- noun Synonyms Pompousness may be used in a good sense; pomposity always expresses something objectionable. See
pomp and pompous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
pompous ; self-importance.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
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Labels: people and places, pimpin ', pomposity posted by Mungowitz @ 3/12/2009 08: 43: 00 PM
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Labels: pimpin ', pomposity posted by Mungowitz @ 3/25/2009 03: 12: 00 PM
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And in the case of Barack Obama, pomposity can also be a code word for race.
Stephen C. Rose: Obama's Achilles Heel: The Pomposity Perception 2008
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Snide remarks laced with pomposity is not appreciated by most, nor is sarcasm punctuated by right/wrong posturing; therefore, I will just try and share my limited information as best I can and if you wish to comment, it will be welcomed.
Living in Mexico 2006
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However, pomposity, which is often confused with eloquence, almost always gets in the way of clarity ...
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I think of his profound irreverence, his constitutional opposition to any kind of pomposity or pretentiousness and irreverence and an opposition that, as far as I could tell, were part of the fiber of his person.
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I think of his profound irreverence, his constitutional opposition to any kind of pomposity or pretentiousness and irreverence and an opposition that, as far as I could tell, were part of the fiber of his person.
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Then he cleared his throat, with the pomposity which is inseparable with most men from the act of reading aloud.
The Firm of Girdlestone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Edited to add; Apologies for the "pomposity" remark.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Words with the same meaning
- Barnumism
- affectation
- arrogance
- assurance
- assuredness
- bedizenment
- belief
- big talk
- bombast
- buckram
- ceremonial
- ceremoniousness
- ceremony
- certitude
- cocksureness
- confidence
- confidentness
- conviction
- convolution
- courage
- dignity
- extrinsicality
- faith
- flashiness
- flatulence
- flatulency
- form
- formality
- formalization
- fulsomeness
- garishness
- gaudiness
- grandiloquence
- grandioseness
- grandiosity
- gravity
- high-flown diction
- hubris
- impersonality
- inflatedness
- inflation
- lexiphanicism
- loftiness
- luridness
- magniloquence
- mere rhetoric
- meretriciousness
- orotundity
- ostentation
- ostentatious complexity
- ostentatiousness
- overconfidence
- oversureness
- overweening
- overweeningness
- platitudinous ponderosity
- poise
- polysyllabic profundity
- pomp
- pompous prolixity
- pompousness
- pontificality
- pontification
- positiveness
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- pride
- primness
- prose run mad
- rhetoric
- rhetoricalness
- rigidness
- ritual
- rituality
- security
- self-assurance
- self-confidence
- self-importance
- self-reliance
- sensationalism
- sententiousness
- settled belief
- showiness
- solemnity
- starchiness
- stiffness
- stiltedness
- stuffiness
- stylization
- subjective certainty
- sureness
- surety
- swelling utterance
- swollen phrase
- swollenness
- tall talk
- tortuosity
- tortuousness
- trust
- tumidity
- tumidness
- turgescence
- turgidity
- weight
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