pompous
sombong
definition
adjective
a pompous ass who pretends he knows everything
affectedly and irritatingly grand, solemn, or self-important.
example
Walton is splendidly 'pompous' and circumstantial when extolling the Babylonian gods.
Still, many Panelists who accepted the usage also remarked that it was pretentious or 'pompous' .
Keith was painted as patronising and 'pompous' , with a grandiose idea of her own importance.
I've just deleted a very long and somewhat 'pompous' sociology essay that you probably wouldn't have been able to bear reading all the way through.
The 'pompous' , splendid Library, on the other hand, visually overwhelms its contents.
There was rarely anything vicious about these jokes: they were leg pulling jokes which only the sensitive and 'pompous' found annoying.
I don't think anyone could read this behaviour in any other way than being 'pompous' and patronising.
Many of the most 'pompous' and arrogant men I've ever met have been obsessed by upgrading their flight tickets.
Lord Irvine has always been portrayed as a 'pompous' and arrogant.
He'll have to swallow that 'pompous' , condescending smile of his once he sees my marks.
Taking an aristocrat's 'pompous' and often unrealistic pontifications as an ideal for living is clearly not a good thing.
Amrish Puri stars in one of the tales as a vain and 'pompous' man.
They look a little deeper into the matter without being 'pompous' , arrogant or patronising.
He is arrogant, 'pompous' , never misses a chance to show off his superiority, and drinks to excess.
As if his letters were not a true indicator of his 'pompous' attitude, Donovan in person was pretentious and rude.
Aristotle's critics have pounced upon this sentence as an example of 'pompous' obscurantism.
Fifth, the remedy cannot be 'pompous' pontification or moral policing.
You also said that your Dad always taught you that being 'pompous' and self-important was just about the greatest sin of all.
But saying something on a grand scale is what fools or 'pompous' pundits usually do.
I was 'pompous' , arrogant and so full of my self that I thought that I could do anything.
Technical people too often seem distant, effete, imperious, and even 'pompous' .
It is here that Nazneen is to spend the rest of her days married to Chanu Babu - a 'pompous' yet discreetly sensitive man twenty years her senior.
Carlton is bending facts here in an area he often 'pompously' claims first-hand knowledge.
Those close to him say his 'pompousness' may be a means to combat shyness.
We need a disposal service for our collective neuroses, something to clear away the rubbish of our self-regard and 'pomposity' .
What would it take to bring wine back to the stature that it deserves - one where it is included in our everyday lives and given appreciation without 'pomposity' ?
That pricking of 'pomposity' and ceremony reflects one of her enjoyable, endearing traits and a quality sadly missing in general politics since she quit.
I'm all for good satire, the sharp and perceptive deflating of pretense, 'pompousness' or deceit.
Even several people I know who generally share his world view told me they found his strutting 'pomposity' almost unbearable this year.
There is a story in your family in which a local squire once reminded your grandfather rather 'pompously' that ‘I came over with the Normans.’
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