Both Uses
pompous
in
Tamar, by Mal Peet
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- They sounded false and pompous, a quotation from somewhere.†
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- No pompous little officer had stood in front of his class and said, "Right, chaps, today we're going to learn how to deal with a particularly nasty little situation that secret agents tend to find themselves in: being bored abso-bloody-lutely rigid.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(pompous) self-important or arrogant in speech or behavior -- especially in a way that seems exaggerated or overly formal
or more rarely: showing ceremonial splendor (pomp) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)