pompously

comparative more pompously · superlative most pompously

1. In a pompous manner.

   When he went home on leave he rioted on a large scale - pompously.

   1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 211

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   That young man could offer little information, however. The sky, he explained pompously, was a great mystery that only an adept might communicate to another. He meant that he didn't know about it, Dave gathered.

   1963, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling

   'I could cite good reasons both for and against such a course of action,' he began pompously.

   1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 85