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grandiloquent

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gran·dil·o·quence  (grn-dl-kwns)
n.
Pompous or bombastic speech or expression.

[From grandiloquent, from Latin grandiloquus : grandis, great + loqu, to speak; see tolkw- in Indo-European roots.]

gran·dilo·quent adj.
gran·dilo·quent·ly adv.

grandiloquent
Adjective
using pompous or unnecessarily complicated language [Latin grandiloquus]
grandiloquence n
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Adj.1.grandiloquent - lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying"
rhetorical - given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; "mere rhetorical frippery"
2.grandiloquent - puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
pretentious - making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"


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Applied to any other creature than the Leviathan --to an ant or a flea --such portly terms might justly be deemed unwarrantably grandiloquent.
began the priest in that voice, clear, not grandiloquent but mild, in which only the Slav clergy read and which acts so irresistibly on a Russian heart.
If, however, it were the fact that such a history were in existence, it must necessarily, being the story of a knight-errant, be grandiloquent, lofty, imposing, grand and true.
 
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