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pompousness

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Grant plays Sinclair with tremendous brio, capturing his pompousness and authority as with some bon mots about good writers "stealing" work.

From Salon Jul. 6, 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

Cree Carrico and Daniel Okulitch provide the needed flamboyance as Rosemary Kennedy and LBJ, as does Casey Finnigan, the pompousness for Khrushchev.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 25, 2016

Course he had a tremendous influence with the selectmen and the like of that, owin' to his soldier record and his pompousness and the amount of taxes he paid.

From The Postmaster by Lincoln, Joseph C.