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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



... interested me. It was not the letter of a duffer or a swindler—the sort of thing you can tell by its ornate pompousness; and it just caught me when I was somewhat bored by things, so that I rather welcomed it as an excitement. I expected to find you lodging in some miserable cottage—a Chatterton in a garret. I came to bring food to the ...
— Cleo The Magnificent - The Muse of the Real • Louis Zangwill


Words linked to "Pompousness" :   inelegance, pompous


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