pompously

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English

Etymology

From pompous +‎ -ly.

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Adverb

pompously (comparative more pompously, superlative most pompously)

  1. In a pompous manner.
    • 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:
      When he went home on leave he rioted on a large scale - pompously.
    • 1963, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling:
      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.
    • 1956 , Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 85:
      'I could cite good reasons both for and against such a course of action,' he began pompously.

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