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English
Etymology
From pompous + -ly.
Adverb
pompously (comparative more pompously, superlative most pompously)
- 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.
1956 [1880], 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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