pompously

Adverb

Meaning

in a pompous manner

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Synonyms

grandly proudly arrogantly contemptuously selfishly haughtily airily imperiously affectedly egotistically gaudily flashily loftily insolently showily

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Antonyms

cheap economically moderately cheaply modestly lowly

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Examples

I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished. Vidal Sassoon

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast! Jean de La Bruyère

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain. Thomas Paine

he pompously described his achievements Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

pompous pompous ass pompous person pompousness pomptine Pomrenke