grandiloquent
speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
Origin of grandiloquent
1Other words for grandiloquent
Opposites for grandiloquent
Other words from grandiloquent
- gran·dil·o·quent·ly, adverb
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How to use grandiloquent in a sentence
A member of his own party mocked his “grandiloquent swell” and “turkey-gobbler strut.”
The senator who said no to a seat on the Supreme Court — twice | Robert Mitchell | February 27, 2022 | Washington PostIn 2014, this might sound grandiloquent and overstated, but in 1994 there were few openly gay men on TV, and few people with AIDS.
Yet a moment like this seems so overblown, so grandiloquent, and so self-consciously heroic that it simply stuns me.
The Hinge of War: Michael Gorra on the Civil War’s Turning Point | Michael Gorra | May 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd then there was the grandiloquent Republican leader Everett Dirksen.
A celebrity whose egocentric and grandiloquent pronouncements reveal a potentially dangerous person in serious need of help?
Note as well their wily use of the word "stuff"—a bit of vernacular so the message doesn't get too grandiloquent.
I was unanimously recalled, and—to be grandiloquent—received with applause that made the welkin ring.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste TchaikovskyJust off the main square we secured quarters in a typical French inn of the second class, a small place with a grandiloquent name.
The Glory of The Coming | Irvin S. CobbThis relative of his, with his plausible and grandiloquent schemes, stood revealed a bankrupt swindler of the worst type.
The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley | Bertram MitfordIf called on to prove his power, this grandiloquent Satan would turn out, I fear, to be a sorry thaumaturgist.
Mysterious Psychic Forces | Camille FlammarionFriedrich has still his hopes of Bavaria, so grandiloquent are the French in regard to it; who but would hope?
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XV. (of XXI.) | Thomas Carlyle
British Dictionary definitions for grandiloquent
/ (ɡrænˈdɪləkwənt) /
inflated, pompous, or bombastic in style or expression
Origin of grandiloquent
1Derived forms of grandiloquent
- grandiloquence, noun
- grandiloquently, adverb
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