Example Sentences

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“He approached the work with a lot of humility. There wasn’t any pompousness about him,” said Edward Padilla, former lead youth educator at Casa 0101 and a family friend.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2024

Each man embodies a version of Hollywood's self-aggrandizing pompousness.

From Salon • Aug. 19, 2023

I don’t want the rigidness of it all and the pompousness.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2020

“Taking the piss” is a term British people came up with that means putting a pin in the balloon of pompousness with of absurdity.

From The Verge • May 31, 2018

Whether or not, in spite of his pompousness, he was grateful to me I didn't know; but I guessed that he was not.

From The High Heart by King, Basil