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Another word for grandiloquent

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Adjective

  1. Characterized by language that is elevated and sometimes pompous in style

    See also:

    words

    style

    plain

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Another word for grandiloquent

Modifier
  1. See also:

    bombastic

    oratorical

    bombastic

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Sentence Examples

  • Aldhelm wrote in elaborate and grandiloquent Latin, which soon came to be regarded as barbarous.

  • "Lord God of might, God of our salvation!" began the priest in that voice, clear, not grandiloquent but mild, in which only the Slav clergy read and which acts so irresistibly on a Russian heart.

  • grandiloquent pamphlet a can move it peter wood who.

  • grandiloquent language.

  • grandiloquent phrases for such a tawdry and criminal aim!

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