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grandiloquence
noun
(gran-dil-o-quence)
high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
Synonyms:
grandiosity
,
magniloquence
,
ornateness
,
rhetoric
,
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grandiosity
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rhetoric
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magniloquence
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bombast
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pompousness
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pomposity
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prolixity
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pretentiousness
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pretension
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haughtiness
,
pedantry
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histrionics
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braggadocio
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melodramatics
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orotund
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loquacity
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didacticism
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boastfulness
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grandeur
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verbosity
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wordiness
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triteness
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theatricality
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politesse
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inarticulateness
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archness
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facetiousness
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affectations
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flummery
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wryness
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clownishness
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imperiousness
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poeticism
,
bathos
,
circumlocutions
,
persiflage
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puerility
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insipidity
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sumptuousness
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officiousness
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peevishness
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staginess
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poesy
,
inconsequentiality
,
profundity
,
priggishness
,
nabokovian
,
sentimentalism
,
garrulousness
,
vainglory
,
whimsicality
,
hyperboles
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ghastliness
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ponderousness
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journalese
,
gaucherie
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impassivity
,
acerbity
,
apercus
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suavity
,
superciliousness
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grotesquery
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speechifying
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volubility
,
dilettantism
,
crudities
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corniness
,
fustiness
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hauteur
,
impishness
,
archaisms
,
shavian
,
taciturnity
,
arioso
,
glibness
,
languor
,
whimsy
,
pithiness
,
pieties
,
panegyrics
,
sanctimoniousness
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rotundity
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egotism
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foppery
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jollity
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grand guignol
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insubstantiality
,
tawdriness
,
dandyism
,
bedazzlement
,
fatuity
,
ingenuousness
,
lugubriousness
,
terseness
,
buncombe
,
smarm
,
cornpone
,
daftness
,
pathos
,
ruefulness
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grandiloquence
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