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pomposity [pɒmˈpɒsətɪ, Am pɑ:mˈpɑ:sət̬ɪ] N no pl pej

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They were poor in material wealth, giving their lives to itinerant preaching and healing without pomposity.
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And with this at the back of our minds, it will constantly serve as a reminder to wake us up from a potential power-induced pomposity.
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He often satirises the verbal pomposities of academics, or the socially pretentious.
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That's not missionary spirit, that's pomposity and hubris.
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He was kind, generous and funny with an unerring ear and eye for pomposity.
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Around a bend, we are joined by an enormous, showy egret that conducts us, with much pomposity, upriver.
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As well as highlighting the pomposities and hypocrisies of the age, the book also tackles issues sometimes considered taboo, including female education, cross-dressing and female adultery.
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This can actually be an attractive, almost aphrodisiacal quality, but it can be very off-putting when it looks like pomposity.
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He examined history from odd angles, exposing what he considered to be the pomposities of various historical characters.
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It is tenacious, disorderly, skeptical of authority, lethal to pomposity and pretension.
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