pompously
- r in a pompous manner
he pompously described his achievements
- From the outset he pompously made it clear that his country would stomach no further insults of the drunken Shah variety.
- Whereupon Wal dressed them all up as clergymen in surplices and paraded them through the grounds before a huge white cloth elephant, which they pompously mourned as dead.
- Two thousand pompously arrayed Chinese witnessed the marriage, in Shanghai last week, of the defeated but honorably esteemed Marshal Chiang Kaishek, resigned generalissimo of .