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pompousness
noun
()
lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
Synonyms:
inflation
,
ostentation
,
ostentatiousness
,
pomposity
,
pretentiousness
,
puffiness
,
splashiness
,
Words Related to
pompousness
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pomposity
,
pretentiousness
,
ostentation
,
ostentatiousness
,
splashiness
,
haughtiness
,
grandiloquence
,
pretension
,
superciliousness
,
smugness
,
bombast
,
boastfulness
,
presumptuousness
,
egotism
,
sanctimoniousness
,
priggishness
,
imperiousness
,
affectation
,
sanctimony
,
vapidity
,
pedantry
,
superficiality
,
egocentricity
,
fustiness
,
vainglory
,
puerility
,
clownishness
,
facetiousness
,
inarticulateness
,
archness
,
unworldliness
,
officiousness
,
blatancy
,
vacuousness
,
inelegance
,
uptightness
,
punctiliousness
,
peevishness
,
impassivity
,
glibness
,
inscrutability
,
gaucherie
,
journalese
,
inanity
,
politesse
,
prolixity
,
loathsomeness
,
daftness
,
attitudinizing
,
obtuseness
,
dilettantism
,
abjection
,
cantankerousness
,
staginess
,
inconsequentiality
,
banality
,
misanthropy
,
smarminess
,
foppery
,
sneery
,
ruefulness
,
wryness
,
snippiness
,
buffoonery
,
taciturnity
,
slovenliness
,
insipidity
,
crudity
,
artlessness
,
philistinism
,
sarcasms
,
intellectualism
,
sentimentalism
,
disingenuity
,
grotesquery
,
jackassery
,
crudeness
,
lugubriousness
,
tactlessness
,
anglophilia
,
incredulousness
,
ambiguousness
,
knowingness
,
infantilism
,
triteness
,
fatuity
,
blitheness
,
hyperboles
,
solipsism
,
cynicism
,
garrulousness
,
didacticism
,
churlishness
,
ingenuousness
,
tawdriness
,
breeziness
,
effeminacy
,
crassness
,
snottiness
,
vacuity
,
pompousness
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