Usually means: Displaying excessive self-importance or pride.
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  1. pompously: Merriam-Webster
  2. pompously: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pompously: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pompously: Vocabulary.com
  5. pompously: Wordnik
  6. pompously: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. pompously: Wiktionary
  8. pompously: Dictionary.com
  9. pompously: Rhymezone
  10. pompously: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. pompously: FreeDictionary.org
  12. pompously: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. pompously: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pompously: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a pompous manner.

Similar:
portentously, stuffily, arrogantly, bombastically, boastfully, magniloquently, self-importantly, pridefully, pretentiously, vaingloriously, more...

Opposite:
humbly, modestly, unpretentiously

Types:
arrogant, conceited, egotistical, self-important, superior, more...

Phrases:
speak pompously, held forth pompously, proceeded pompously, talk pompously, pompously embellished language, more...



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Similar:
portentously, stuffily, arrogantly, bombastically, boastfully, magniloquently, self-importantly, pridefully, pretentiously, vaingloriously, more...

Opposite:
humbly, modestly, unpretentiously

Types:
arrogant, conceited, egotistical, self-important, superior, more...

Phrases:
speak pompously, held forth pompously, proceeded pompously, talk pompously, pompously embellished language, more...



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