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Affectedly grand or pretentious in manner or behavior

Having an exaggerated perception of one's positive qualities

Bombastic or grandiloquent in expression

Bold, audacious or showy in behavior or manner

Having or showing very strict moral attitudes

Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

Magnificent and splendid, suggesting abundance and great expense, and having a flavor of debauchery

Impressive or grand in size, appearance, or manner

Abounding in words or containing more words than necessary

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Adjective

Affectedly grand or pretentious in manner or behavior

high-and-mighty

high and mighty

self-opinionated

self-centered^US

self-centred^UK

full of oneself

full of yourself

self-glorifying

self-congratulatory

putting on airs

self-aggrandizing

too big for your boots

throwing one's weight around

on your high horse

self-complacent

holier-than-thou

self-flattering

self-gratulatory

self-dramatizing

self-applauding

on a high horse

offensively self-assertive

swollen with pride

throwing one's weight about

of preconceived ideas

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“Her short, bright red hair and bold, self-assured manner gave Nurse Holt, in my mind's eye, the resemblance of a combination between a pompous queen reviewing her court and the head rooster checking out the barnyard turf.”

Adjective

Having an exaggerated perception of one's positive qualities

self-centred^UK

self-centered^US

self-opinionated

full of yourself

high and mighty

high-and-mighty

too big for your boots

full of oneself

self-congratulatory

individualistic

wrapped up in oneself

self-interested

stuck on oneself

pleased with oneself

self-preoccupied

self-infatuated

too big for your britches

full of hot air

self-glorifying

pleased with yourself

too big for your breeches

proud of oneself

holier-than-thou

self-aggrandizing

self-respecting

in love with oneself

think too highly of oneself

think a lot of oneself

have an excessively high opinion of oneself

blowing one's own horn

sure of yourself

nose in the air

think one is the cat's pyjamas

think one is the cat's whiskers

think one is God's gift

on your high horse

self-sufficient

having a swelled head

wrapped up with oneself

self-applauding

proud of yourself

flushed with success

I'm all right, Jack

like a cat that has swallowed the canary

like the cat that's got the cream

looking after number one

self-aggrandising

blowing one's own trumpet

resting on your laurels

like the cat that got the cream

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“If he had learned one thing over the past five months, it was to remain quiet when this pompous and egotistical man spoke.”

Adjective

Bombastic or grandiloquent in expression

hyperventilated

sensationalized^US

sensationalised^UK

disproportionate

full of hot air

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“The crowd would cringe at his pompous phraseology.”

Adjective

Bold, audacious or showy in behavior or manner

over the top OTT

hyperventilated

exhibitionistic

full of airs and graces

high and mighty

cheap and nasty

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Adjective

Having or showing very strict moral attitudes

schoolmistressy

holier-than-thou

stick-in-the-mud

of the old school

too good to be true

to keep up appearances

prim and proper

overconscientious

goody-two-shoes

politically correct

goody two-shoes

undemonstrative

uncommunicative

keeping people at arm's length

self-respecting

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Adjective

Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

schoolmasterist

by way of explanation

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Adjective

Magnificent and splendid, suggesting abundance and great expense, and having a flavor of debauchery

lavishly appointed

out of this world

fit for a queen

in the lap of luxury

pleasure-loving

with good taste

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Adjective

Impressive or grand in size, appearance, or manner

highly regarded

out of this world

tall in the saddle

bigger than life

fit for a queen

fit for a prince

fit for a princess

larger-than-life

well thought of

of high standing

one for the book

something to write home about

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Adjective

Abounding in words or containing more words than necessary

with the gift of the gab

having kissed the Blarney stone

circumlocutionary

able to talk the hind legs off a donkey

having kissed the blarney stone

full of hot air

full of verbiage

having kissed the Blarney Stone

circumlocuitous

circumlocutional

circumlocutious

excessively communicative

running on at the mouth

blessed with the gift of the gab

difficult to follow

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