grandiloquent
adjective
Origin of grandiloquent
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Related Words for grandiloquent
aureate, bombastic, declamatory, fustian, high-flown, histrionic, inflated, magniloquent, oratorical, orotund, overblown, pompous, purple, rhetorical, sonorous, swollen, verbose, windbag, windyExamples from the Web for grandiloquent
Contemporary Examples of grandiloquent
Yet a moment like this seems so overblown, so grandiloquent, and so self-consciously heroic that it simply stuns me.
And 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.
Historical Examples of grandiloquent
Why I have known the weather in this grandiloquent condition for a whole day.
Homeward BoundJames Fenimore Cooper
"That was quite true, dad," he remarked with a grandiloquent air.
The New TenantE. Phillips Oppenheim
This grandiloquent decree destroyed the effect of the armament.
The Political History of England - Vol. X.William Hunt
The tone with which he addressed me was deliberate and grandiloquent.
Tenting on the PlainsElizabeth B. Custer
These grandiloquent harangues of mercy and advice disgust me.
In the Name of LibertyOwen Johnson