Definition of "pompously" [pompously]

• In a pompous manner. (adverb)

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• "Geneva, "pompously," is no place for brawling, and if you come hither for that, you will quickly find yourself behind bars."
• "On his restless nocturnal strolls, Harry frequently encounters his next-door neighbor, and friendly fellow insomniac, Bradley Thomas (Greg Kinnear), the maritally jinxed proprietor of the campus coffee shop, and the source of much of the film’s humor in the kind of pompously clueless role he played so effectively in last year’s hilarious Little Miss Sunshine."
• "Both involve ancient recurring human drama, and after a whole it becomes simply wilful to feign contemptuous ignorance of something filling two pages of our daily papers, like those judges who would interject, pompously: "What is a Teletubbie/Xbox/iPod?""