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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)
- Though maybe Crake was just being a pompous tightass; maybe Watson-Crick was having a bad effect on him.p. 208.0
- Evil Dad blustered and theorized and dished out pompous bullshit, Righteous Mom complained and accused.p. 60.2
- Jimmy yelled. it was a good word, he'd got it off an old DVD; they'd taken to using it to tear each other down for being pompous.p. 77.6
There are no more uses of "pompous" in Oryx and Crake.
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