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grandly

adverb (IMPORTANTLY)
 
 
/ˈɡrænd.li/

Definition

in a way suggesting that something or someone has great importance: She announced grandly that she was spending Christmas in the Caribbean.Expensive and luxuriousCosting too much
(Definition of grandly adverb (IMPORTANTLY) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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