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Definition of the day : « pompousness »
- noun pretentiousness
- None of the deacon's pompousness was abated as he entered the house and the room.
- Extract from : « The Cash Boy » by Horatio Alger Jr.
- A great landowner was remarkable for the pompousness of his manner.
- Extract from : « Chatterbox, 1906 » by Various
- He had a pompousness or formal plenitude in his conversation, which I did not dislike.
- Extract from : « Life Of Johnson, Volume 5 » by Boswell
- Three things that characterise every haughty person: pompousness, elegance, (display of) wealth.
- Extract from : « The Triads of Ireland » by Kuno Meyer
- It has no Pindaric involution, no Æschylean pompousness, no studied Sophoclean subtlety, no Euripidean concetti.
- Extract from : « Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol II of 2) » by John Addington Symonds
- He had cast off his pompousness and vanity, and was known to favor war to the bitter end.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 » by Various
- Mr. Warren looked more sympathetic than ever, and that was just as trying to bear as the pompousness of Doctor Newington.
- Extract from : « The Heart of a Woman » by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
- In his straight-forward, confiding manner there was no suggestion of his old sharpness and pompousness.
- Extract from : « The Great Quest » by Charles Boardman Hawes
- There was no room for pedantry, for the ostentatious display of learning, for pompousness, for affectation.
- Extract from : « History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8) » by John Richard Green
- The externality, the pompousness of intention, the theatrical postures, was part of the romantic constitution.
- Extract from : « Musical Portraits » by Paul Rosenfeld