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Another word for pomposity

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Noun

  1. Boastful self-importance or display

    See also:

    plain

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Another word for pomposity

Noun

  1. Pretension

    See also:

    arrogance

  2. Grandiloquence

    See also:

    nonsense

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Sentence Examples

  • 3) criticizes his writings as characterized by pomposity of style and an extravagant use of poetical epithets and compounds and far-fetched metaphors.

  • They criticized in no measured terms the current medicine of the time, and exposed the practical ignorance, the pomposity, and the greed of those who practised it.

  • He was a very agreeable companion and a thorough man of the world, singularly free from arrogance and pomposity; owing to his small stature, he was often known as "die kleine Excellenz."

  • pomposity of men of science.

  • Much of Cliff's humor had the same aim as satire: to puncture pomposity.

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