Synonyms
Examples for "pompous"
Examples for "pompous"
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Its capital runs into millions; its prospectuses are pompous; its pay-roll mysterious.
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Many say his at times schoolmasterly manner of explaining issues sounds pompous.
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The pompous collaborator stepped forward, and Kira realized her opportunity had come.
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The younger man ignored the pompous tone of this speech; he nodded.
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The heavy, pompous clouds were floating in the sky over their heads.
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But it was a portentous moment in Irish commercial and social history.
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The political aspects of the times were now portentous in the extreme.
3
The situations of the principal powers of Europe are singular and portentous.
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But there is something portentous in the change in Chichester, said Malling.
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Such was the matter-of-fact manner in which the portentous news was announced.
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But many others felt the new year holiday saga had been overblown.
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A sizable minority of Americans continue to think coronavirus concerns are overblown.
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But McGregor said all the concern about dangers proved to be overblown.
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The collage effect is brilliantly achieved technically but at times seems overblown.
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In other words, they say fears of a skills shortage are overblown.
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M. Edgeworth put on his pontifical robes, and began to celebrate mass.
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Expenditure, always charming, becomes under these circumstances a sacred and pontifical act.
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I noted it, I think, in the case of the pontifical feminine dress.
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They passed between the pontifical guards, who gave the priest the military salute.
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A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth.
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It was grandiloquent, and it often took long to reach the point.
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He preferred, in his grandiloquent way, to call a spade a spade.
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The image suggests a grandiloquent eccentric, a man engaged in endearing folly.
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He made her a grandiloquent bow and sat down at his desk.
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They say that he lacked inspiration, and was vulgar, bombastic, and grandiloquent.
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Her voice has a smooth timbre and she speaks directly: no grandiloquent rhetoric.
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The house, in spite of its grandiloquent title, was of excessively shabby exterior.
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He makes mistakes in grammar and construction, and is often stilted and grandiloquent.
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This sounds somewhat grandiloquent, but it seems to me somewhat like the truth.
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And ten years before that it was something even more grandiloquent.
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The genial Bud placed a chair for her with grandiloquent courtesy.
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Pristina was an ugly town, by turns poor and pompous, grim and grandiloquent.
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The whole passage is, of course, in parody of the grandiloquent style of Aeschylus.
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Why I have known the weather in this grandiloquent condition for a whole day.
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The same fate has befallen the grandiloquent mansions of other men before and since.
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Theos smiled,-thegrandiloquent manner of this self-importantindividual amused him.
