pompously 的定义
- characterized by an ostentatious display of dignity or importance: a pompous minor official.
- ostentatiously lofty or high-flown: a pompous speech.
- Archaic. characterized by pomp, or a display of stately splendor or magnificence: an impressive and pompous funeral.
pompously 近义词
pretentiously
更多pompously例句
- Pompously he quoted, ‘Handsome is as handsome does,’ and Rose had no call to go against me.
- Oh, yes, and anyone anywhere who has ever indignantly, pompously posed the question: Do you know who I am?
- This is what the writers of serious books pompously call "the secret history of the whole matter."
- She then pompously demanded a private audience with Sir Hugh, and the young party left the room.
- I consider that the "gastronomic art," as it is pompously called, is ninety-nine per cent plain rubbish.
- This affair was pompously announced in all the newspapers while I was nearly reduced to beggary.
- This legacy so pompously announced seemed of less importance to the legatees than to the testator.