Synonyms:
grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous
Meaning: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
Usage examples
I'm blessed if I ever heard of two such pompous old frauds as you and I, Captain!
Aramis, confiding in the address of Bazin, made a pompous eulogium on his candidate.
But intimacy is impossible, in most cases, with this grave, pompous, and awful being.
Lord Fawn was pompous, slow, dull, and careful; but even he had given way to it at once.
"There are people here in whom you are interested?" To the girl his voice sounded pompous and heavy.
Her carriage dashed into the garden in a most pompous style, and drove right up to the southern front of the building.
I, for one, go to sleep under them." And Mr. Ellis drew himself up with a pompous air as he went into the library, whither his wife presently followed.
They were, at length, very much surprised to see a pompous edition of it in folio, dedicated to the Princess Dowager of Wales, by a Dr. Douglas, as his own.
For "fine sermons" Vincent had the greatest contempt; he would use his merry wit to make fun of the pompous preachers whose only thought was to impress their audience with an idea of their own eloquence.
In pompous language, however, which jumbled one sentence into another, and at length grew disconnected, he gave me to understand that I was to lead the children altogether away from the Casino, and out into the park. Finally his anger exploded, and he added sharply: