All 6 Uses of
pompous
in
Main Street
- They were harshly pompous, like men in the smoking-compartments of Pullman cars.†
Chpt 4 *
- Kennicott, Sam Clark, Jackson Elder, young Dr. McGanum, and James Madison Howland, teetering on their toes near the stove, conversed with the sedate pomposity of the commercialist.†
Chpt 17
- She felt that in the turbulence of the drama she was discovering a history more important than the commonplace chronicles which dealt with senators and their pompous puerilities.†
Chpt 17
- The rear of Ezra Stowbody's bank was whitewashed, and back of it was a concrete walk and a three-foot square of grass, but the window was barred, and behind the bars she saw Willis Woodford cramped over figures in pompous books.†
Chpt 29
- But you business men are going to beat all the rest of us at it, with your simple-hearted, energetic, pompous——†
Chpt 36
- They insinuate their tyranny under a hundred guises and pompous names, such as Polite Society, the Family, the Church, Sound Business, the Party, the Country, the Superior White Race; and the only defense against them, Carol beheld, is unembittered laughter.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(pompous) behaving with excessive self-importance -- often with exaggerated dignity or ceremonial splendor
or more rarely: showing ceremonial splendor (pomp)