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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)
- She kindly let me get by most of the time with putting on the dog and pompousness, being a warm girl.Chapter 8 (36% in)
- " I'd laugh out loud at his mixture of pompousness and revolutionist's jargon and his amended Tennessee accent.Chapter 11 (13% in)
- Now he talked of his aunt Ettl as an artist and sounded pompous.Chapter 25 (57% in)
There are no more uses of "pompous" in The Adventures of Augie March.
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