pomposities
- plural of pomposity.
Example Sentences
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A humorist and actor, his folksy delivery artfully deflated politicians and pomposities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2025
“Love’s Labor’s Lost,” with or without the British “u,” is a very youthful, disjointed text, its thin thread of plot repeatedly cut by clowns, dullards, puns, pomposities and noodling that goes nowhere.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
From time to time, Mr. Leo devoted his column to skewering the conventions and pomposities of journalistic prose.
From Washington Post ● May 13, 2022
In the Persia of the time, you couldn’t speak or write about the Shah openly, so he called him Marjoribanks, a silly name to make fun of pomposities.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2013
When we have to tell a story to a small boy or girl, we avoid little pomposities, and seek for the plainest, clearest and most direct phrase.
From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie
