magniloquent
adjective
speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
magniloquence
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a word derived from
magniloquent.
Example Sentences
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But these nuggets feel so precision-engineered to showcase Smith’s hard-earned self-awareness that they appear trite, even insincere, when juxtaposed with his riotous magniloquence.
From Washington Post β Nov. 5, 2021
Hillary may not have MacKaye’s magniloquence, but he shares his idealism.
From New York Times β Mar. 13, 2017
But he paced, and roared, and pointed, and pounded, and stabbed with his cigar, and spoke with an intelligence and a magniloquence and a force that overwhelmed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Capably staged by Lee Strasberg, the play, Mr. Kingsley's first-staged, has periods of magniloquence and structural fatuity.
From Time Magazine Archive
And then she generalised, with untranslatable magniloquence: "Un amplissimo porporato non va mai solo."
From The Cardinal's Snuff-Box by Henry Harland
