Crossword-Solution: POMPOSITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pomposity | n. | The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness. |
We have 45 clues for the answer “POMPOSITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Puffed-up quality | 1 answer |
| pretentiousness | 10 answers |
| bragging | 15 answers |
| puritanic | 17 answers |
| prudishness | 17 answers |
| priggishness | 17 answers |
| pompousness | 17 answers |
| Parading. | 18 answers |
| inflation | 21 answers |
| pedantry | 21 answers |
| prudery | 23 answers |
| egotism | 23 answers |
| pageantry | 25 answers |
| stuffiness | 27 answers |
| high mightiness | 28 answers |
| ostentation | 30 answers |
| Pomp | 32 answers |
| boasting | 37 answers |
| lip service | 37 answers |
| primness | 42 answers |
| Braggadocio | 44 answers |
| Arrogance | 50 answers |
| Parade | 54 answers |
| sanctimoniousness | 57 answers |
| sycophancy | 57 answers |
| perfidiousness | 57 answers |
| deviousness | 57 answers |
| deceitfulness | 57 answers |
| shuffling | 58 answers |
| affectedness | 58 answers |
| dupery | 58 answers |
| Unctuousness | 58 answers |
| cozenage | 58 answers |
| simulation | 59 answers |
| unreliability | 60 answers |
| Falsification | 60 answers |
| Prevarication | 60 answers |
| showmanship | 60 answers |
| insincerity | 61 answers |
| artificiality | 62 answers |
| dissimulation | 65 answers |
| Infamy | 67 answers |
| Display | 77 answers |
| Stratagem | 79 answers |
| Trick | 111 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with POMPOSITY (5)
His benignant and imperturbable pomposity gave Roderick the sense of suffocating beneath a large fluffy bolster, and the worst of the matter was that the good gentleman’s placid vanity had an integument whose toughness no sarcastic shaft could pierce.
Esdaile! Here is Professor Grey." "How do you do, Professor?" said the lady, with some little pomposity of manner.
You couldn't find a better- paying job in the whole city," she continued, "because in three days you'll have six ladies, and each of them will give you ten coppers." I was nearly dumbstruck to see the pomposity of that woman who appeared to be, at the very least, the wife of a privileged gentleman or of some wealthy citizen.
McGanum, and James Madison Howland, teetering on their toes near the stove, conversed with the sedate pomposity of the commercialist.
They then vent their pomposity from one end of a harangue to the other; and to hear them lavish imagery on every occasion, one might fancy that they never spoke of anything with simplicity.
Quotes with POMPOSITY (3)
…but I think comedy is more aggressive than that. It is a medium for revenge. We can deflate and punish the pomposity and the rejection which hurt us. Comedy is power.
But little else could deter Craig Binky, for he believed that everything about him was destined to be triumphal. Harry Penn was certain that in his nearly one hundred years he had never encountered a soul more intensely marinated in self-satisfaction. Craig Binky's pomposity was often relieved, for others, by what Harry Penn generously termed "Mr. Binky's somewhat inexact intelligence.
Just stop and think a bit. All such things as bulk, or width, you know by comparison only; comparison with familiar things. So, just for fun, go up in an imaginary balloon, about half way to that old Moon, which has hung aloft from your birth — (and possibly a day or two in addition) — and look down upon your “gigantic” city. How will it look? It is a small patch of various colors; but you know that, within that tiny patch, many thousands of your kind hurry back and forth; ra…
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Appears in: Boston Globe.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2014).