magniloquently
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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And even as he speaks so magniloquently, he’s slumped on the floor in a defeated heap, having forgotten his work.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2012
Known magniloquently as the English Riviera, Torbay would like to think it's in southern California.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2011
Dinna talk magniloquently; that's the workman's darling sin.
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Thomas Hughes
It is to our fancies an 'island valley of Avilion,' or, less magniloquently, a pleasant land of Cockaine, where we may sleep away the disturbance of battle, and even read through 'Clarissa Harlow.'
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Sir Leslie Stephen
Some of these constitutional enactments are most magniloquently worded, but not always with precise grammatical correctness.
From North America — Volume 1 by Anthony Trollope
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