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Definition of Grandiosely
1. Adverb. In a grandiose manner. "The building was bombastically spacious"
Definition of Grandiosely
1. Adverb. In a grandiose manner ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Grandiosely
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grandiosely
Literary usage of Grandiosely
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister (1904)
"A hundred dollars couldn't buy that piece of stale mud off his back," he asserted,
looking off into the sky grandiosely. " What'll you take for that pony ? ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1911)
""It was a lucky day for you when you met me, young man," he whispered grandiosely
and mysteriously, yet generally, to Henry. On the façade of Prince's there ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1907)
"... an old Waterloo pensioner, and when his affrighted womenfolk would have roused
him in the earlier hours of the night, he waved them grandiosely away. ..."
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