Get to know Pomposity better with 9 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like ostentation or pompousness.
Pomposity in a sentence
Pomposity meaning
The quality of being pompous; self-importance.
Synonyms of Pomposity
Using Pomposity
- The main meaning on this page is: The quality of being pompous; self-importance.
- Useful related words include: ostentation, ostentatiousness, pompousness, pretentiousness.
- In the example corpus, pomposity often appears in combinations such as: and pomposity, pomposity and.
Context around Pomposity
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pomposity
- In this selection, "pomposity" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 26.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, unjustified, portentous, collective, got, sounds and citation stand out and add context to how "pomposity" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and moral pomposity and burn s pomposity. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pomposity" sits close to words such as aanholt, aardwolf and abati, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pomposity
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Uppity is a fine old word for unjustified pomposity. (9 words)
If portentous pomposity sounds like fun, you’re in luck! (10 words)
More likely though he would have found a march in another town where pomposity and exclusivity weren't the overriding principles. (21 words)
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. (41 words)
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. (37 words)
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. (32 words)
If portentous pomposity sounds like fun, you’re in luck! (10 words)
Example sentences (9)
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.
Common combinations with pomposity
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: