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comparative more pompously, superlative most pompously
In a pompous manner. quotations examples
When he went home on leave he rioted on a large scale - pompously.
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, […], part I, page 211
'I could cite good reasons both for and against such a course of action,' he began pompously.
1956 , Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 85