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pompously

/pom-puhs/US // ˈpɒm pəs //UK // (ˈpɒmpəs) //

浮夸地,大言不惭地,浮夸地说,浮夸地讲

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by an ostentatious display of dignity or importance: a pompous minor official.
    • : ostentatiously lofty or high-flown: a pompous speech.
    • : Archaic. characterized by pomp, or a display of stately splendor or magnificence: an impressive and pompous funeral.

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Examples

  • Pompously he quoted, ‘Handsome is as handsome does,’ and Rose had no call to go against me.

  • Oh, yes, and anyone anywhere who has ever indignantly, pompously posed the question: Do you know who I am?

  • This is what the writers of serious books pompously call "the secret history of the whole matter."

  • She then pompously demanded a private audience with Sir Hugh, and the young party left the room.

  • I consider that the "gastronomic art," as it is pompously called, is ninety-nine per cent plain rubbish.

  • This affair was pompously announced in all the newspapers while I was nearly reduced to beggary.

  • This legacy so pompously announced seemed of less importance to the legatees than to the testator.