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• n  lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

• He showed no shadow of pompousness.
• In Seeds of Tomorrow Sholokhov has written the story of a collective farm with robust humor, with good-natured mockery at the zeal and pompousness of Communists, with shrewd .
• We have the same pompousness that needs to be punctured," says Robert Mankoff, the cartoon editor of the New Yorker and creator of the iconic cartoon in which a man is looking .

• ostentation
• ostentatiousness
• pomposity
• pretentiousness
• puffiness
• splashiness
• inflation

News & Articles

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• Band of Horses' Frontman Pens Tribute to Late JJ Cale
  To lose a dude as cool as Cale is not only a loss for fans of great music, but a loss for those who rail against egoism and pompousness,writes Ben Bridwell. read more        
  July 30, 2013 - The Hollywood Reporter

Quotes

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• Wayne Coyne in NME.com
  I'm a fan of them on one level, but on another level I get really tired of their pompousness,Coyne said. "We've played some shows with them and they really treat people like shit. Whenever I've been around them, I've found that they not...
• Khaled Mashaal in Arab News
  The political stance is a Palestinian, Arab and Muslim stance and we seek to be unified to confront the Zionist pompousness because the problem is not in the Palestinians or Arabs and Muslims stance,said Meshaal. "There has always been...
• Robert Mankoff in TIME
  There's a bedrock core of humanity. We have the same pompousness that needs to be punctured,says Robert Mankoff, the cartoon editor of the New Yorker and creator of the iconic cartoon in which a man is looking at his calendar while on the...