10 examples of pompousness in sentences

"He reposes entire confidence in me," said Beaumaroy, with a touch of assumed pompousness.

He had a pompousness or formal plenitude in his conversation, which I did not dislike.

He was sorry for his cousin, in spite of the pompousness and arrogance with which Sir Timothy unconsciously did his best to alienate even those whom he most desired to attract.

In verse, he has a pomp which, excellent in itself, became pompousness in his imitators.

Whenever, on the other hand, we see in wise and good men any vanity, boasting, pompousness of any kind, we call it a weakness in them, and are sorry to see them lowering themselves by the least want of divine modesty.

His manners were marked by a certain touch of pompousness, and he liked to dwell upon the excellence of the entertainment which his house afforded, but these were innocent characteristics which did not interfere with his reputation as a sensible and sound man of business.

She did not show that his name was even known to her, though she did sweep him with a rapid, scrutinizing, half-mocking glance that seemed to betray a hidden thought: "Not bad-looking, but what a dunce!" Rafael blushed, feeling he had made a false step in volunteering his name with the pompousness he would have used toward some bumpkin of the region.

Boasting, display, ostentation, pomp, pompousness, show.

he said with enigmatic pompousness, followed by a distinctly vicious snarl, "Master Busy will be my name in future for a saucy wench like thee.

But there was in general nothing Oriental about him, no assumption of barbaric pompousness, no extravagance of bearing.

10 examples of  pompousness  in sentences