Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - grandly

1. You say that someone speaks or behaves grandly when they are trying to impress other people. He grandly declared that ‘international politics is a struggle for power’. ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV adj c darkgreen]disapproval 2. You use grandly in expressions such as ‘grandly named’ or ‘grandly called’ to say that the name of a place or thing makes it sound much more impressive than it really is. (mainly BRIT) Lucille’s home was very grandly called a chateau, though in truth it was nothing more than a large moated farm. ADV: ADV adj, ADV before v