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Definition
behaving with excessive self-importance — often with exaggerated dignity or ceremonial splendor
or more rarely: showing ceremonial splendor (pomp)
or more rarely: showing ceremonial splendor (pomp)
- Our visitor bore every mark of being an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow.Adventure II — The Red-Headed League (8% in)
- With a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and strode off upon his way.Adventure VII — The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (53% in)
There are no more uses of "pompous" in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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