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restaurant reviews that are written with a pomposity that will leave a bad taste in anyone's mouth
his over-the-top trophy mansion should give you some idea of his pomposity
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Garcia, both bestowing and receiving paternal advice, differentiates between father and son with help from a pair of eyeglasses and an air of British pomposity.
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There is a certain power in laughing at the absurdity of evil totalitarianism, which is propped up by pomp and propaganda — Iannucci illustrates that well with the grandeur and pomposity of Stalin’s funeral.
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The power, the pomposity, the fun of commanding a room.
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Even as her fame increased, so did the attacks against her, from accusations of pomposity to charges of contempt, obscenity and sedition.
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Jokes are the sword otherwise powerless people can use to puncture pomposity.
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DeSantis’ and LeValley’s preening upper-crust pomposity cries out to be punctured with a dose of reality.
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Even as her fame increased, so did the attacks against her, from accusations of pomposity to charges of contempt, obscenity and sedition.
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Even as her fame increased, so did the attacks against her, from accusations of pomposity to charges of contempt, obscenity and sedition.
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First Known Use of pomposity
1572
pomposity Synonyms
Synonyms
arrogance, assumption, bumptiousness, consequence, haughtiness, hauteur, high horse, huffiness, imperiousness, loftiness, lordliness, masterfulness, pompousness, presumptuousness, pretense (or pretence), pretension, pretentiousness, self-importance, superciliousness, superiority;
Antonyms
Near Antonyms
bashfulness, demureness, retiringness, shyness;
diffidence, self-distrust, self-doubt, timidity, timidness;
lowliness, meekness, mousiness, passiveness, passivity, submissiveness;
Related Words
authoritativeness, bossiness, dominance, high-handedness;
condescension, disdain, scorn;
chest-thumping, inflation, self-assertion, snobbery, snobbishness, snobbism, snootiness;
attitude, cheek, cheekiness, impertinence, impudence, sauciness;
boastfulness, bombast, bravado, strut, swagger, triumphalism, vaingloriousness, vainglory;
cockiness, complacence, conceit, egoism, egotism, pride, pridefulness, self-assumption, self-centeredness, self-complacency, self-conceit, self-content, self-contentment, self-opinion, self-partiality, self-satisfaction, smugness, swelled head, vanity;
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