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Pompousness   /pˈɑmpəsnəs/   Listen
Pompousness

noun
1.
Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.  Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness.






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"Pompousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... sceptical philosophy," when his writings were full of schoolboy echoes of Locke and Hume. At this time he avowed himself a materialist. Then he succumbed to Bishop Berkeley, who convinced him that the nature of everything that exists is spiritual. We find him saying, with charming pompousness, "I confess that I am one of those who are unable to refuse their assent to the conclusions of those philosophers who assert that nothing exists but as it is perceived." This "intellectual system," he rightly sees, leads to the ...
— Shelley • Sydney Waterlow

... landowner was remarkable for the pompousness of his manner. He was one day riding leisurely through a small village, when he happened to meet a rough-looking farmer's lad, who was pulling a calf along with both hands, by means of a rope attached to its neck. When ...
— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various



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