pompously

adv

1. In a pompous manner.

   “When he went home on leave he rioted on a large scale - pompously.”

   “That young man could offer little information, however. The sky, he explained pompously, was a great mystery that only an adept might communicate to another. He meant that he didn't know about it, Dave gathered.”

   “'I could cite good reasons both for and against such a course of action,' he began pompously.”