pompously in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for pompously in the English»French Dictionary

pompously [Brit ˈpɒmpəsli, Am ˈpɑmpəsli] ADV

pompously speak

d'un ton pompeux

pompously behave

de manière pompeuse

Translations for pompously in the French»English Dictionary

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The store says pompously that its focus groups declare that separate floors for boys' and girls' toys were unpopular with customers.

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Proof in point: the pompously mannered sentence following this footnote.

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Poisonous politicians are carnally cantankerous, critically incorrect, increasingly indecorous, deeply dishonest, highly hypocritical, pompously prideful, morally bankrupt, insignificantly productive, uncivilized, self-centred, and wicked!

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Not only was it difficult to decipher, but sentences, even paragraphs, that could have been summed up with a few words were expounded upon pompously for pages.

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This is why we can speculate, be pundits or pompously berate anyone that doesn't agree with our won enlightened knowledge.

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We praise ourselves for our own progression and evolvement, stating pompously how far we have advanced or how tolerant of a society we now live in.

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There were also attitudes -- or what might be called, more pompously, the philosophy of the paper.

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And, instead of coldly shutting us down or pompously pulling rank or angrily flaring up, he has listened.

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Junior critics have pompously opined on its deplorable humanism and provincialism in contrast with those thrilling avant-gardists sur le continong.

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Well, that's putting it pompously but constructing.

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