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Adjective: pompous  póm-pus
  1. Puffed up with vanity
    "a pompous speech"
    - grandiloquent, overblown, pontifical, portentous
     
  2. Characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display
    - ceremonious

See also: pomp, pomposity, pompously, pretentious

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