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Meanings of grandiloquent in English

Puffed up with vanity.

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Lofty in style.

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Usage of grandiloquent in English
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It was grandiloquent, and it often took long to reach the point.
The Stolen Singer
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He preferred, in his grandiloquent way, to call a spade a spade.
The Financier: A Novel
3
The image suggests a grandiloquent eccentric, a man engaged in endearing folly.
The Irish Times
4
He made her a grandiloquent bow and sat down at his desk.
Aimez-vous Brahms
5
They say that he lacked inspiration, and was vulgar, bombastic, and grandiloquent.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
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Her voice has a smooth timbre and she speaks directly: no grandiloquent rhetoric.
The Guardian
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The house, in spite of its grandiloquent title, was of excessively shabby exterior.
The Champdoce Mystery
8
He makes mistakes in grammar and construction, and is often stilted and grandiloquent.
History of American Literature
9
This sounds somewhat grandiloquent, but it seems to me somewhat like the truth.
Sister Teresa
10
And ten years before that it was something even more grandiloquent.
Nights in London
11
The genial Bud placed a chair for her with grandiloquent courtesy.
Jim Waring of Sonora-Town; Or, Tang of Life
12
Pristina was an ugly town, by turns poor and pompous, grim and grandiloquent.
The fracture zone: my return to the balkans
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The whole passage is, of course, in parody of the grandiloquent style of Aeschylus.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2
14
Why I have known the weather in this grandiloquent condition for a whole day.
Homeward Bound; Or, the Chase: A Tale of the Sea
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The same fate has befallen the grandiloquent mansions of other men before and since.
The Guardian
16
Theos smiled,-thegrandiloquent manner of this self-importantindividual amused him.
Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self
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