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Meanings of grandiloquence in English
High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation.
Synonyms
Examples for "rhetoric"
Examples for "rhetoric"
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Therefore, official US rhetoric on Syrian citizens defending themselves must change today.
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His new rhetoric, however, has so far failed to regain voters' enthusiasm.
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Anacrites is a good speaker; it was a good exercise in rhetoric.
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Some Democrats expressed doubt that the rhetoric would result in meaningful change.
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President Trump's rhetoric suggested a major military strike against the Assad regime.
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This triumphant concrete structure celebrates the birth of Afrikaans in abstract grandiosity.
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I'm very confident in that because of the grandiosity of the decision.
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He casts them as the audience in the theatre of his inflated grandiosity.
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Within the early psychosis group, both violent and non-violent traumas predicted elevated grandiosity.
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Paranoia, grandiosity and hallucinations aren't confined to those with serious mental health problems.
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However, Johnson's attempt to appease him was a curious specimen of his magniloquence.
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Nevertheless, the Sultan detected a shade of hesitation in spite of the magniloquence of this refusal.
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You speak of her with the magniloquence of a poet and the feeling of a troubadour.
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I trust his magniloquence will be rewarded with a loud fanfaronade as he leaves The Irish Times.
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Into what magniloquence does vanity betray us!
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He was well-clothed, but with a shade too much ornateness.
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I remembered being moved by the music, and astounded by the ornateness of the theater.
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Apologists for the building say that the profuse ornateness rightly suggests the richness of California's horticulture.
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His English was a marvel of ignorant ornateness, like his vest and his watch-chain and rings.
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Naivete is to be desired rather than ornateness.
Usage of grandiloquence in English
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To have found expression for it, without grandiloquence, is no commonplace achievement.
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But your grandiloquence, and your conduct in swinging the beetle-howexcessively odd!
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It was a long speech, but this was clearly the time for grandiloquence.
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Possibly Miss Corson was covering embarrassment with the jaunty grandiloquence that she displayed.
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It was mostly put on, of course, this false grandiloquence of the prig.
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He pressed Elton's hand and endeavored to express his gratitude with appropriate grandiloquence.
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She knew all the lines by heart, in their spacious grandiloquence; lines such as:
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The grandiloquence went out of the voice of Telfer and his face became serious.
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He adored eloquence, not to say grandiloquence: he was the son of a barrister.
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Anyone who has heard and admired his spoken grandiloquence will welcome its transference to print.
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He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence.
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What warrant is there for the grandiloquence of the phrase: the Oldest part of the Mind?
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Mrs. Dodd smiled at the grandiloquence of youth, and told him he had mistaken her character.
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He spoke execrable French, but there was a grandiloquence about his vocabulary which set everyone laughing.
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Nothing could have been more fortunate; it afforded a fine scope for my favorite vein of grandiloquence.
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And yet, for all its grandiloquence, there was something in his speech that rang hard and true.
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Translations for grandiloquence
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Spanish
Grandiloquence through the time