All 3 Uses of
bombastic
in
The ABC Murders
- -with two extremely bombastic Christian names: Alexander and Bonaparte.
Chpt 31 *bombastic = pompous or pretentious
- I think the idea first originated in your mind as the result of a chance encounter in a city coffee den with this odd personality with his bombastic Christian names.†
Chpt 34
- His bombastic Christian names, his account of his epileptic seizures and of his headaches, his whole shrinking and insignificant personality, struck you as fitting him for the tool you wanted.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(bombastic) pompous or pretentious talk or writing
(often using difficult words in an attempt to make something sound more important than it is or to make the speaker sound more intelligent)