a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality, especially in language
high-flown style
SYN - grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric
"He would deliver his speeches with such grandiloquence that no-one ever questioned his leadership."
"He always came off as pretentious when he spoke with this type of grandiloquence."
"Never one to be accused of being dull, he did almost everything in his life with grandiloquence."
"She was attracted by his grandiloquence, even though it was mostly laughed at by everyone else who saw him as a delusional romantic that was too into himself."
Thursday, September 18, 2008
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