bombastically
in a pompous or inflated way
Root
- bombast: padding, stuffing, or inflated speech
Other words with the bombast root
Bombastically means with verbal padding: loudly, grandly, and with more stuffing than substance.
He announced the minor schedule change so bombastically that everyone expected a national emergency.
If bombast is padded speech and bombastic describes the style, bombastically is the manner: the way someone says it.
Use the stage image. The speaker enters with fog machine confidence, but when the smoke clears, the sentence may not have carried much meaning.