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Affectedly grand, solemn, or self-important

Having an exaggerated perception of one's positive qualities

Foolishly grand in style

Of exaggerated importance or value

Overly formal, pompous or conventional

Tending toward excessive moralization

Impressive or grand in size, appearance, or manner

Having a striking appearance or style, typically by being excessively bright, colourful, or ostentatious

Exaggerated and excessively dramatic

Characterized by fullness, clarity, strength, and smoothness of sound

Luxurious in quality or nature

Characterized by exaggerated or affected politeness, refinement, or respectability

Swollen with fluid or gas

Marked by or showing careful attention to set forms and etiquette

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Adjective

Affectedly grand, solemn, or self-important

high-and-mighty

self-centred^UK

self-centered^US

high and mighty

self-opinionated

full of oneself

full of yourself

self-congratulatory

self-glorifying

too big for your boots

self-aggrandizing

holier-than-thou

self-applauding

on your high horse

putting on airs

too big for your britches

self-respecting

full of hot air

too big for your breeches

self-complacent

self-flattering

self-gratulatory

self-dramatizing

anti-democratic

throwing one's weight around

offensively self-assertive

pleased with yourself

swollen with pride

on a high horse

nose in the air

of preconceived ideas

sure of yourself

self-aggrandising

throwing one's weight about

take-it-or-leave-it

full of airs and graces

throwing weight around

hyperventilated

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“It is here that Nazneen is to spend the rest of her days married to Chanu Babu - a pompous yet discreetly sensitive man twenty years her senior.”

Adjective

Having an exaggerated perception of one's positive qualities

self-opinionated

self-centred^UK

self-centered^US

wrapped up in oneself

individualistic

self-interested

stuck on oneself

pleased with oneself

full of yourself

self-preoccupied

self-infatuated

self-congratulatory

too big for your boots

pleased with yourself

proud of oneself

high-and-mighty

full of oneself

high and mighty

in love with oneself

think too highly of oneself

think a lot of oneself

have an excessively high opinion of oneself

holier-than-thou

blowing one's own horn

looking after number one

too big for your breeches

think one is the cat's pyjamas

think one is the cat's whiskers

think one is God's gift

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

self-sufficient

having a swelled head

wrapped up with oneself

resting on your laurels

like the cat that got the cream

untrammelled^UK

full of hot air

blowing one's own trumpet

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Adjective

Foolishly grand in style

hyperventilated

full of hot air

with the gift of the gab

having kissed the Blarney stone

circumlocutionary

highly decorated

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“She winced at his pompous phraseology.”

Adjective

Of exaggerated importance or value

disproportionate

hyperventilated

overemphasized^US

overemphasised^UK

larger-than-life

attention-grabbing

overextravagant

sensationalistic

highly coloured

out of proportion

out of all proportion

beyond the pale

excessively high

costing an arm and a leg

highway robbery

blown up out of all proportion

surplus to requirements

costing the earth

daylight robbery

over one's head

recrementitious

unduly expensive

over-enthusiastic

laid on with a trowel

beyond all bounds

more than one can afford

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Adjective

Overly formal, pompous or conventional

stick-in-the-mud

of the old school

prim and proper

holier-than-thou

schoolmistressy

undemonstrative

uncommunicative

keeping people at arm's length

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Adjective

Tending toward excessive moralization

holier-than-thou

too good to be true

to keep up appearances

schoolmasterist

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Adjective

Impressive or grand in size, appearance, or manner

highly regarded

well thought of

of high standing

out of this world

highest-ranking

larger-than-life

fit for a prince

fit for a queen

fit for a princess

no-expense-spared

tall in the saddle

well-proportioned

disproportionate

something to write home about

one for the book

overextravagant

tall and dignified

extremely large

self-respecting

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Adjective

Having a striking appearance or style, typically by being excessively bright, colourful, or ostentatious

exhibitionistic

cheap and nasty

brightly coloured

brilliantly coloured

putting on the ritz

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Adjective

Exaggerated and excessively dramatic

Adjective

Characterized by fullness, clarity, strength, and smoothness of sound

clearly audible

extremely noisy

as clear as a bell

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Adjective

Luxurious in quality or nature

lavishly appointed

out of this world

fit for a queen

in the lap of luxury

pleasure-seeking

with good taste

pleasure-loving

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Adjective

Pedantic

Adjective

Characterized by exaggerated or affected politeness, refinement, or respectability

well brought up

well brought-up

well-thought-of

highly regarded

stick-in-the-mud

of the old school

that's the ticket

just what was ordered

correspondent to

correspondent with

fit to be eaten

fit for human consumption

unobjectionable

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Adjective

Swollen with fluid or gas

uncomfortably full

curving outward

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Adjective

Marked by or showing careful attention to set forms and etiquette

stick-in-the-mud

of the old school

out of this world

schoolmistressy

prim and proper

self-respecting

overconscientious

highly regarded

fit for a prince

well-proportioned

tall in the saddle

fit for a queen

fit for a princess

tall and dignified

well thought of

of high standing

one for the book

larger-than-life

something to write home about

like a dream come true

invigorating^US

envigorating^UK

out of the ordinary

too good to be true

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