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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)
- My brother might be pompous, but he knows certain things that could prove useful to me.Chapter 3 (46% in)
- Maybe it's imagining Ann squelching her voice to work for pompous aristocrats and their hateful children.Chapter 27 (86% in)
- She's appeasing him, but he's far too pompous to realize that.Chapter 33 (26% in)
There are no more uses of "pompous" in A Great and Terrible Beauty.
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