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· pompous
adjective
puffed up with vanity
"a grandiloquent and boastful manner"
characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display
Similar words
grandiloquent
overblown
pontifical
portentous
ceremonious
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).