euphuistic
- a word derived from euphuism.
Example Sentences
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In truth, while Ros’s pathos-filled classic now reads as unintentionally comic, its euphuistic style isn’t that much different from the circumlocutions found in late Henry James.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2018
He found the play arch and pretentious: "The language becomes picky, tricky; at once rigid and self-indulgent, as though everything were being translated from some strangely euphuistic Latin."
From Time Magazine Archive
Mistress of euphuistic words, she is carried away by their glamor, too easily seduced from reason.
From Time Magazine Archive
Early in July, Molotov was listed as a signer of the euphuistic vale to the departed Georgi Dimitrov.
From Time Magazine Archive
The painter Apelles, whose name seemed almost to obsess Lyly in his novel, is one of the chief characters of Campaspe, and the dialogue is more decidedly euphuistic than any other play.
From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover
