pompous
/ˈpɑmpəs/ adjetivo C2En español: pomposo, rimbombante, campanudo, ampuloso
- Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
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Sherlock Holmes chuckled to himself, and appeared to be about to make some remark, when Lestrade, who had been in the front room while we were holding this conversation in the hall, reappeared upon the scene, rubbing his hands in a pompous and self-satisfied manner.
Our visitor bore every mark of being an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow.
“John, show these gentlemen out!” A pompous butler ushered us severely to the door, and we found ourselves in the street.
There is something very pompous in his style.
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