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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a grandiose manner.

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  • adverb In a grandiose manner

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  • adverb in a grandiose manner

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Examples

  • Beyond the Kornuchaket much more snow had fallen, and a few miles brought us to Moses 'Village, called grandiosely "Arctic City," since a trader had established a store and a road-house there.

    Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891

  • It took my dad eight years to pay off the note he signed to buy the little store, grandiosely sub-titled

    My Old Man, Across a Hotel Pool in the Bahamas Con Chapman 2011

  • Not only have genuine opposition parties been marginalized, but Putin's personal popularity is immense among Russians who laud him as the strong and decisive figure needed by a sprawling country troubled by corruption, an Islamist insurgency and a vast gap between the impoverished and the grandiosely super-rich.

    Putin to run for Russian presidency in 2012 2011

  • Not only have genuine opposition parties been marginalized, but Putin's personal popularity is immense among Russians who laud him as the strong and decisive figure needed by a sprawling country troubled by corruption, an Islamist insurgency and a vast gap between the impoverished and the grandiosely super-rich.

    Putin to run for Russian presidency in 2012 2011

  • "I will buy a Guston," I thought to myself grandiosely, "the way that Matisse bought the small Cezanne that became a cornerstone of his artistic life."

    John Seed: Mazurki: The Multiple Meanings of a Philip Guston Drawing John Seed 2011

  • A committee, grandiosely labeled a "Super Congress" will essentially decide whether and how much we'll cut and whether and how much we'll tax.

    Joel Weinberger: Super Congress or Star Chamber? Joel Weinberger 2011

  • She was obsessed with what she rather grandiosely referred to as “la cuisine française,” enthusiastically trilling the words in her extraordinarily operatic, uniquely accented French.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • "The government has failed grandiosely," said FT Deutschland, "in its campaign to make the new stability pact a real instrument of budget discipline."

    France and Germany hijack strict new eurozone budget regime Ian Traynor in Brussels 2010

  • She was obsessed with what she rather grandiosely referred to as “la cuisine française,” enthusiastically trilling the words in her extraordinarily operatic, uniquely accented French.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • "I will buy a Guston," I thought to myself grandiosely, "the way that Matisse bought the small Cezanne that became a cornerstone of his artistic life."

    John Seed: Mazurki: The Multiple Meanings of a Philip Guston Drawing John Seed 2011

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