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Meanings of overblown in anglès
Sinònims
Examples for "pompous"
Examples for "pompous"
1
Its capital runs into millions; its prospectuses are pompous; its pay-roll mysterious.
2
Many say his at times schoolmasterly manner of explaining issues sounds pompous.
3
The pompous collaborator stepped forward, and Kira realized her opportunity had come.
4
The younger man ignored the pompous tone of this speech; he nodded.
5
The heavy, pompous clouds were floating in the sky over their heads.
1
But it was a portentous moment in Irish commercial and social history.
2
The political aspects of the times were now portentous in the extreme.
3
The situations of the principal powers of Europe are singular and portentous.
4
But there is something portentous in the change in Chichester, said Malling.
5
Such was the matter-of-fact manner in which the portentous news was announced.
1
M. Edgeworth put on his pontifical robes, and began to celebrate mass.
2
Expenditure, always charming, becomes under these circumstances a sacred and pontifical act.
3
I noted it, I think, in the case of the pontifical feminine dress.
4
They passed between the pontifical guards, who gave the priest the military salute.
5
A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth.
1
It was grandiloquent, and it often took long to reach the point.
2
He preferred, in his grandiloquent way, to call a spade a spade.
3
The image suggests a grandiloquent eccentric, a man engaged in endearing folly.
4
He made her a grandiloquent bow and sat down at his desk.
5
They say that he lacked inspiration, and was vulgar, bombastic, and grandiloquent.
Usage of overblown in anglès
1
But many others felt the new year holiday saga had been overblown.
2
A sizable minority of Americans continue to think coronavirus concerns are overblown.
3
But McGregor said all the concern about dangers proved to be overblown.
4
The collage effect is brilliantly achieved technically but at times seems overblown.
5
In other words, they say fears of a skills shortage are overblown.
6
This issue is being overblown, Mnuchin said in an interview with CNBC.
7
But Kersee insists that the drugs crisis in the sport is overblown.
8
Some people suggest that concerns about a swine flu pandemic are overblown.
9
Expectations for a grand bargain from the meeting were overblown, he said.
10
While he's honored to be included, Huston says the credit is overblown.
11
Some analysts said Wednesday's selloff in Apple shares may have been overblown.
12
If this was intended as a show of solidarity, it felt overblown.
13
And speaking of that, we've got bigger problems than your overblown libido.
14
President Higgins crossed a line with his overblown tribute to Fidel Castro.
15
I clung stubbornly to the view that Zika fears were largely overblown.
16
An accident, but the only amusing thing about this monstrous overblown figure.
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Overblown across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common