Pompous vs Struts - What's the difference?
pompous | struts |
Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
* 1848, , Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
(strut)
an ostrich (large flightless bird )
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As an adjective pompous
is affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.As a noun struts is
plural of lang=en.As a verb struts is
third-person singular of strut.pompous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous , and tedious; and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Sedley did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief."