Pomposity

Don Wright, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist whose pointed work punctured duplicity and pomposity and resonated with common-sense readers, died on March 24 at his home in Palm Beach, Fla. He was 90.

Uppity is a fine old word for unjustified pomposity.

Mr. Burns’s loud know-it-all persona played well off Mr. Schreiber’s warm, low-key one, particularly when Mr. Schreiber, as he so often did, punctured Mr. Burn’s pomposity.

The smugness and pomposity got worse: “A lot of people said that was a great presidential moment, which was, you know, rather shocking to hear,” Trump claimed.

If portentous pomposity sounds like fun, you’re in luck!

More likely though he would have found a march in another town where pomposity and exclusivity weren't the overriding principles.

Stan Ikenberry, Priscilla Masselink and Nancy Parker play the Upson family, who live in a restricted, exclusive part of Connecticut and don’t want people like Mame and her kind moving in. You’ll laugh out loud at their collective pomposity.

I would like to have told them that the sooner I was rid of that hate-beleaguered atmosphere the better, that I was fed up of America's insults and moral pomposity..

The allusion was to a turkey, "always gobbledygobbling and strutting with ridiculous pomposity." citation citation History The term "gobbledygook" has a long history of usage in politics.