Pompously
"Pompously" in a Sentence (4 examples)
He came in pompously, not knowing that everyone would ridicule him.
When he went home on leave he rioted on a large scale - pompously.
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.
'I could cite good reasons both for and against such a course of action,' he began pompously.
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