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grandiosity

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Grandiosity (noun) means Behaviour or style that is pompous and pretentious, aiming to seem grander than it is.

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Behaviour or style that is pompous and pretentious, aiming to seem grander than it is.

"U2 have never been a band noted for their love of shy understatement, but even by their standards, their arrival in Las Vegas represents a hitherto-unimagined degree of grandiosity." — Alexis Petridis, U2 review – an utterly astonishing, admirably raw Vegas extravaganza (2023)

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