Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.
1 Hugh was very angry and a little absurd in his youthful pomposity .
2 At this the French agent draws his figure up with much pomposity .
3 There is a curious pomposity about him, too, which grates upon me.
4 Certainly not the time for unkind mention of his slight pomposity .
5 The gentleman took it seriously, and it has given his strut additional pomposity .
6 The inn-keeper at Valence amused us much by his empty pomposity .
7 He took refuge, as he always did when he was confused, in pomposity .
8 This deceptive title, not unpredictably, reeks of bourgeois pretentiousness and pomposity .
9 Without an atom of pomposity or air rectorial, he settled himself to listen.
10 Inevitably his pomposity and smirking appearance making the announcement means few will believe him.
11 His dignity had a bare suspicion of pomposity in it.
12 And ask it what it thinks of you-ofyour patronage and pomposity and conceit.
13 He had just an individualizing amount of the pomposity characteristic of many old-time actors.
14 Any kind of pomposity was held up to endless ridicule.
15 But the internet is peculiarly adapted to deftly pricking pomposity .
16 An excited crowd streamed after the policeman, who stalked on with no little pomposity .
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