rhetorical
Origin of rhetorical
Synonyms for rhetorical
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oratorical, vocal, articulate, aureate, bombastic, declamatory, eloquent, exaggerated, flamboyant, flashy, florid, fluent, glib, grand, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, imposing, inflated, magniloquentExamples from the Web for rhetorical
Contemporary Examples of rhetorical
But politicians abhor a rhetorical vacuum, and they have clamored to fill it.
Its rhetorical potential—if it ever had any—has been thoroughly exhausted.
It was a gracious touch, a rhetorical olive branch to his vanquished foes.
But this new flavor of rhetorical flimflam is still pretty, well, whack.
Yet the president uses it for rhetorical vividness—a clarity, as it were.
Historical Examples of rhetorical
The Menexenus has more the character of a rhetorical exercise than any other of the Platonic works.
MenexenusPlato
For I do not imagine that I have any rhetorical art of my own.
PhaedrusPlato
All of them are rhetorical and poetical rather than dialectical, but glimpses of truth appear in them.
SymposiumPlato
Hardy was desperately in earnest, but not so much so as to be careless of rhetorical effect.
Audrey CravenMay Sinclair
What Inflection is placed on the rhetorical questions in par.
The Ontario High School ReaderA.E. Marty