pompously in the PONS Dictionary

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The album is all so very pompously glossy, with all kinds of poetry about school, friendship and mutual understanding, with pages separated by parchment paper.
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Well, that's putting it pompously but constructing.
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She indicated an artificial closure by declaring pompously that now the nation can move on.
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And the trouble is, brief authority often concerns itself pompously with the most trivial of causes.
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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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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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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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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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Proof in point: the pompously mannered sentence following this footnote.
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There were also attitudes -- or what might be called, more pompously, the philosophy of the paper.
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