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Meanings of very pompous in English

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Usage of very pompous in English
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Lord Maltenby was very pompous, very stiff, and yet apologetic.
The Devil's Paw
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He always greeted their mother in a very pompous fashion.
The new yorker
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There is the German monumental style, which consists in erecting very pompous statues, badly done.
All Things Considered
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The recruiting officer, a dapper little fellow, very pompous and important, turned him down mercilessly.
The Next of Kin: Those who Wait and Wonder
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Mr. Bardolph I saw in person, a very pompous gentleman with manners the reverse of polite.
A Girl Among the Anarchists
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There is the French monumental style, which consists in erecting very pompous statues, very well done.
All Things Considered
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We are told, in a very pompous tone.
The Irish Times
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He used to insert very pompous and magniloquent sentences in his themes, much to Channing's disgust.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
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Meanwhile he composed the requete in my name, which was very pompous, very tedious, and very abject.
Travels through France and Italy
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She continued incessantly talking Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, in very pompous tones and with most distinct enunciation.
Biographia Literaria
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He was a very pompous looking man of middle age, with reddish mustache, and long side whiskers.
The River of Darkness; Or, Under Africa
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In the Kildare Street Club one day he saw a very pompous individual, and asked who he was.
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
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He puffed himself up in that way that was universal among the very pompous and very rich in every culture.
The chamber of ten
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From his hiding-place under the bed he saw the door open wide and a very pompous-appearing matron enter the room.
Everychild / A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young an...
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In general, people seem to like the measure, except the Speaker, who is very pompous about it, and speaks constitutional paragraphs.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
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It justly ridiculed a certain Gujerati newspaper, which had just described in very pompous expressions a recent wedding ceremony in Poona.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
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