Sentence example with the word 'grandiloquent'

grandiloquent

affected, convoluted, extreme, garish, highfalutin, magnified, overemphasized, overstressed, rhetorical, stretched

Definition adj. lofty in style

Last update: August 8, 2016


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Even though Rick did not understand the grandiloquent words, he still used them to impress his wealthy friends.    [Please select]

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The city girl’s grandiloquent talk was confusing to the people in the country town.   [Please select]

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Manoel de Faria y Sousa (q.v.), a voluminous writer on Portuguese history and the arch-commentator of Camoens, wrote, by an irony of fate, in Spanish, and Mello's classic account of the Catalonian War is also in that language, while, by a still greater irony, Jacinto Freire de Andrade thought to picture and exalt the Cato-like viceroy of India by his grandiloquent Vida de D.   [Please select]

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There were some grandiloquent headlines: "Miss Elizabeth Carewe an Angel of Mercy."   [Please select]

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"I wish no trifling insinuations, sir," replied Ned, with a grandiloquent air.   [Please select]

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Hilaire, with a little trace of the grandiloquent in his tone.   [Please select]

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They spoke of Pope's grandiloquent dispatches, and they wondered what had become of Lee and Jackson.   [verb]

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If the little old fellow grows grandiloquent or garrulous at times--_he_ did that.   [adverb]

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All the grandiloquent pictures he had painted of the future faded in panic.   [Please select]

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As the Scout Master made this elaborate announcement in his most grandiloquent manner, the boys responded laughingly, clapping their hands appreciatively, but uttering no word.   [adjective]

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These praises were in the form of grandiloquent, overloaded poetry, full of strange similes and allusions, but with little real feeling.   [Please select]

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