pompous

How To Use pompous In A Sentence

• I was accused of being stiff, spoiled, pompous, upper crusted, bitter, angry, negative, imbecilic, and even crazy.
• Music critics have often poured scorn on progressive rock for being boring, pompous and pretentious. Times, Sunday Times
• He's a pompous old prig who's totally incapable of taking a joke.
• a pompous speech
• His sense of humour, always in evidence, made it impossible for him to seem pompous or self-important, and he never attempted to disguise his own fallibility as a human being.
• I'm all for good satire, the sharp and perceptive deflating of pretense, pompousness or deceit.
• Tonight, C had the gall to send a young junior, a pompous little ass called Maitland-Wood, to ask if I would reconsider. Final Resting Place of The Pen
• Dora is engaged to a pompous young bigwig of local fascist society, to the evident delight of her ambitious mother.
• This week's pompous, poncey, high-handed antics could pique the infamous Tauran temper, impelling you to channel that feisty, fiery Hawaiian volcano deity Pele, who loves to erupt in Vesuvian pyrotechnics.
• Including the pompous local police commissaire; the unflappable intelligence officer from France; the slimy representative of the international oil cartel; and the personages - intelligence, governmental, and clerical of the remnants of the civilian oligarchy; as well as many others, including the Doctor's lover, a Hapsburg We Have All Been Disgraced By Corruption, A Review of Eric Ambler's Doctor Frigo