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bombast
(Figuratively) High-sounding words; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking; language above the dignity of the occasion.
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  1. (Figuratively) High-sounding words; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking; language above the dignity of the occasion.
  2. Grandiose or overpowering expression, as in music or painting.
  3. Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing.
pomposity
A pompous act, remark, etc.
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  1. A pompous act, remark, etc.
  2. The quality of being pompous; ostentation; self-importance
  3. The quality of being pompous; self-importance.
bombast
Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing.
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  1. Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing.
  2. Talk or writing that sounds grand or important but has little meaning; pompous language
  3. (Figuratively) High-sounding words; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking; language above the dignity of the occasion.
claptrap
A trick or device to gain applause; humbug.
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  1. A trick or device to gain applause; humbug.
  2. Pretentious, insincere, or empty language:
  3. Absurd, insincere, or empty talk or writing
grandiloquence
Pompous or bombastic speech or expression.
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  1. Pompous or bombastic speech or expression.
  2. Lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing
magniloquence
The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.
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  1. The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.
  2. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
orotundity
The quality of being orotund.
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  1. The quality of being orotund.
rant
A criticism done by ranting.
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  1. A criticism done by ranting.
  2. An example of such speech or writing:
  3. Angry, emotionally charged, or tediously negative speech or writing:
turgidity
The state or quality of being turgid
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  1. The state or quality of being turgid
aureate
Inflated and pompous in style.
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  1. Inflated and pompous in style.
  2. Splendid or brilliant, often affectedly so
  3. Of a golden color; gilded.
bombastic
High-sounding but with little meaning.
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  1. High-sounding but with little meaning.
  2. (Archaic) Inflated, overfilled.
  3. (Of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
declamatory
Pretentiously lofty in style; bombastic.
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  1. Pretentiously lofty in style; bombastic.
  2. Marked by passion or pomposity; bombastic
  3. Pretentiously rhetorical; bombastic.
flowery
Covered or decorated with flowers
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  1. Covered or decorated with flowers
  2. Full of ornate or grandiloquent expressions; highly embellished:
  3. Of a speech or piece of writing: too complicated; elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; bombastic; verbose.
grandiloquent
Using high-flown, pompous, bombastic words and expressions
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  1. Using high-flown, pompous, bombastic words and expressions
high-flown
Exceedingly lofty or exalted:
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  1. Exceedingly lofty or exalted:
  2. Highly pretentious or inflated:
  3. High-sounding but meaningless; bombastic
high-sounding
Sounding pretentious or impressive
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  1. Sounding pretentious or impressive
  2. Oratorial or even contrived sounding.
  3. Pretentiously impressive; pompous:
magniloquent
Lofty and extravagant in speech; grandiloquent.
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  1. Lofty and extravagant in speech; grandiloquent.
  2. Lofty, pompous, or grandiose in speech or style of expression
  3. Boastful or bombastic
orotund
Clear, strong, and deep; resonant
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  1. Clear, strong, and deep; resonant
  2. Bombastic or pompous
  3. Full in sound; sonorous:
overblown
Past the stage of full bloom:
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  1. Past the stage of full bloom:
  2. Pompous or bombastic
  3. Full of empty or pretentious language; bombastic:
rhetorical
Characterized by overelaborate or bombastic rhetoric.
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  1. Characterized by overelaborate or bombastic rhetoric.
  2. Using or characterized by mere rhetoric, or artificial eloquence; showy and elaborate in style
  3. Used for persuasive effect:
sonorous
Produced in the manner of a sonorant.
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  1. Produced in the manner of a sonorant.
  2. Producing or capable of producing sound, esp. sound of full, deep, or rich quality; resonant
  3. Having a powerful, impressive sound; high-sounding
swollen
Increased in volume or size, as from inner pressure; blown up; distended; bulging
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  1. Increased in volume or size, as from inner pressure; blown up; distended; bulging
  2. Expanded by or as if by internal pressure; distended:
  3. Overblown; bombastic:
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  • Jacob Bright was educated at the Ackworth school of the Society of Friends, and was apprenticed to a fustian manufacturer at New Mills.

  • Coal and salt are raised, and the other industries include fustian, towel, couch, chair and nail factories, iron and brass foundries, stone quarries and corn mills.

  • The once considerable manufacture of fustian has declined.

  • Jean, said to be derived from Genoa where a kind of fustian with this title was made, is a kind of twilled cloth.

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