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 ● Nov. 5, 2021
Hillary may not have MacKaye’s magniloquence, but he shares his idealism.
From New York Times ● 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
One need only recall the volume of overbearing magniloquence that broke out all over the place in that beginning, when The Day was believed to be dawning.
From An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Thorstein Veblen
