grandiloquent in English

adjective

1

pompous or extravagant in language, style, or manner, especially in a way that is intended to impress.

a grandiloquent celebration of Spanish glory

synonyms: pompous, bombastic, magniloquent, pretentious, ostentatious, high-flown, orotund, florid, flowery, overwrought, overblown, overdone, highfalutin, purple

adjective

pompous, bombastic, magniloquent, pretentious, ostentatious, high-flown, orotund, florid, flowery, overwrought, overblown, overdone, highfalutin, purple
pontifical, overblown, pompous, portentous
magniloquent, tall

Use "grandiloquent" in a sentence

1. Bombast: Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing

2. She attacked her colleagues for indulging in "grandiose and grandiloquent language".

3. Indeed, no eulogy could be more grandiloquent than this.

4. Jay was given to grandiloquent rambling, and had to check herself.

5. Her speech was full of grandiloquent language, but it contained no new ideas.

6. He prefered, in his grandiloquent way , to call a spade a spade.

7. We did not couch the Millennium Declaration in abstract and grandiloquent concepts lacking in substance

8. The truth is that Ministers who mouth those grandiloquent guarantees know little of what is happening on the ground.

9. There are about 900 English translations of the Bible, ranging from the grandiloquent to the colloquial.

10. Their judicial proclamations range from grandiloquent declarations of sovereign citizenship to lowly refusals to pay speeding tickets.

11. We did not couch the Millennium Declaration in abstract and grandiloquent concepts lacking in substance.

12. With the exception of Ron Paul, all the serious candidates waxed grandiloquent about their aims.

13. His tightly honed but grandiloquent rhetoric rang like gold on marble, even when it was covering gross political ineptitude.

14. The tempi of their dances were usually slow and grandiloquent, the gestures generous yet precise and performed with conviction.

15. Bombastic (comparative more Bombastic, superlative most Bombastic) (of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous See Thesaurus:verbose or Thesaurus:arrogant; High-sounding but with little meaning

16. ‘Bombastic music that drowned out what anyone was saying’ ‘Johnson's expression is manly, vigorous, grandiloquent and Bombastic.’ ‘Given the star's history of Bombastic public behavior, she may be greeted with skepticism about her intent.’

17. ‘Bombastic music that drowned out what anyone was saying’ ‘Johnson's expression is manly, vigorous, grandiloquent and Bombastic.’ ‘Given the star's history of Bombastic public behavior, she may be greeted with skepticism about her intent.’

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