Crossword-Solution: POMPOUS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pompous | a. | Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession. |
| Pompous | a. | Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style. |
We have 63 clues for the answer “POMPOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Self-important, as an ass | 1 answer |
| Over proud | 1 answer |
| Overly self-important or grandiose | 1 answer |
| Like Oscar from "The Office," often | 1 answer |
| Affectedly self-important | 1 answer |
| toplofty | 7 answers |
| Self-important | 7 answers |
| Pontifical | 9 answers |
| bumptious | 13 answers |
| puritanical | 13 answers |
| magisterial | 17 answers |
| prideful | 17 answers |
| Magniloquent | 19 answers |
| declamatory | 21 answers |
| puffed up | 24 answers |
| turgid | 28 answers |
| overformal | 28 answers |
| Immodest | 29 answers |
| Bloated | 29 answers |
| stilted | 30 answers |
| distended | 35 answers |
| euphemistic | 35 answers |
| mannered | 36 answers |
| grandiose | 38 answers |
| imitated | 39 answers |
| Simulated | 40 answers |
| Perky | 44 answers |
| Puffed | 44 answers |
| histrionic | 46 answers |
| Cocky? | 46 answers |
| stodgy | 46 answers |
| wooden | 47 answers |
| falsified | 47 answers |
| Melodramatic | 48 answers |
| Pretended | 49 answers |
| disingenuous | 50 answers |
| Stuffy | 50 answers |
| Posh | 50 answers |
| Feigned | 52 answers |
| hypocritical | 53 answers |
| Solemn | 55 answers |
| grandiloquent | 55 answers |
| Eloquent | 58 answers |
| Exaggerated | 59 answers |
| perfidious | 61 answers |
| hard going | 61 answers |
| ARTIFICIAL ___ | 65 answers |
| Conceited | 66 answers |
| GROUCHY | 69 answers |
| Edgy | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with POMPOUS (5)
His ‘Mountain delivered of a Mouse,’ produces the moral of his fable in ridicule of pompous pretenders; and his Crow, when she drops her cheese, lets fall, as it were by accident, the strongest admonition against the power of flattery.
That watch has regulated imperial interests in its time—the stately ceremonial, the courtly assignation, pompous travels, and lordly sleeps.
His card, which seemed too small to carry the weight of his academic distinctions, preceded him by a few seconds, and then he entered himself—so large, so pompous, and so dignified that he was the very embodiment of self-possession and solidity.
The pompous and empty Sophist is utterly helpless in the hands of the great master of dialectic, who knows how to touch all the springs of vanity and weakness in him.
You have wasted too much of our valuable time talking about non-related issues." And you, you pompous old windbag, encouraged that witness, Lyle Stone to go on and on for hours on unrelated issues yourself, thought Janet, sneaking a quick, compassionate look at Diana and flexing her fingers in preparation for the next words.
Quotes with POMPOUS (3)
It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.
— and pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are alright; you can talk to them and try to help them out. But pompous fools — guys who are fools and covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus — THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn’t a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1981–2018).