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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.

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Pompous Quotations

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

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

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

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

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?
Goldie Hawn

Pompous Translations

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


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