Pompous in example sentence

If you were a medical student at the University of Edinburgh in 1876, be prepared for cold, gray, grimy days, complacent and pompous professors, class consciousness and the occasional dissection.

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It was just like that, because what you started to see is that all of these grand statesmen, these very pompous politicians, they were just like us.

Now, I know it's a bit pompous, my response, but it's an important distinction, because I don't believe that what we need is sensitivity training.

There’d be a pompous paper parliament who remained out of touch, and who ignored the people's protests about all the paper cuts, then the peaceful paper protests would get blown to paper pieces, by the confetti cannons manned by pre-emptive police.

But Kanner took a dim view of these abilities, claiming that the kids were just regurgitating things they'd heard their pompous parents say, desperate to earn their approval.

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