Definition of Pompous

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Definition of Pompous
	Pompous Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style. Related Definitions: As, Boastful, Displaying, Grandeur, Magnificent, Ostentatious, Pomp, Pompous, Pretentious, Procession, Showy, Stately, Style, With

Pompous Quotations

Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
Don Adams

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.
William Shatner

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.
Sid Vicious

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
William Makepeace Thackeray

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
Paul Simon

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?
Kathleen Turner

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
Oriana Fallaci

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.
William Thomas

Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.
Donald Judd

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.
Shelley Duvall

Pompous Translations

pompous in German is prunkvoll, breitspurig, prunkvoll
pompous in Latin is inflatus
pompous in Spanish is pomposo

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