Grandiloquent
[græn'dɪləkwənt]
Definition
(adj.) puffed up with vanity; 'a grandiloquent and boastful manner'; 'overblown oratory'; 'a pompous speech'; 'pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey'- Newsweek .
(adj.) lofty in style; 'he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying' .
Typist: Ursula--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
Typist: Ruben
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Bombastic, turgid, tumid, swelling, inflated, stilted, pompous, declamatory, rhetorical, high-sounding, high-flowing, HIGHFALUTIN.
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Examples
- The orthodox economists are in the unenviable position of having taken their morals from the exploiter and of having translated them into the grandiloquent language of high public policy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Mr Wegg was going to say, My Benefactor, and had said My Bene, when a grandiloquent change came over him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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