bombastical
- a variation of bombastic.
Example Sentences
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It is said that he is a man of great ability and a good speaker, more in the familiar English than the bombastical French style.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Greville, Charles
Sir Abraham Elton next came forward, and addressed the meeting in one of the most bombastical and ridiculous speeches that I ever heard.
From Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 by Hunt, Henry
This school was remarkable for the most extravagant license and bombastical nonsense, a sad proof of the moral perversion of the age.
From Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 by Horrocks, Mrs. George
I need hardly say these bombastical phrases did not elevate his general dialect: they lay fearfully distinct upon the surface, "like lumps of marl upon a barren soil, encumbering the ground they could not fertilize."
From White Lies by Reade, Charles
The tone of expression is by turns flat or madly bombastical; not unfrequently both at the same time: in short, this poet resembles a man who walks upon stilts in a morass.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John
