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Meanings of turgidness in inglés

portugués
flatulência
catalán
turgència

Pompously embellished language.

flatulência
Sinónimos
Examples for "flatulence"
Examples for "flatulence"
1
Their unfortunate flatulence produces methane emissions, and that's certainly not good news.
The Irish Times
2
They are grateful to the feeble stomach, and will relieve flatulence promptly.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
3
The prank begins when the prankster senses the deep stirrings of flatulence.
Wired
4
Even flatulence is explained as a way people are limited by social niceties.
News.com.au
5
Do they have a problem inhaling the flatulence of other travellers?
The Irish Times
1
The turgidity and luxuriance of art gradually passed into tameness and poverty.
The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilizati...
2
The turgidity of the source material ultimately dragged Dragon Tattoo into the slush.
The Irish Times
3
His odes have the turgidity without the grandeur of Gray's.
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 3
4
But the tendency to turgidity may proceed from debility alone.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
5
There is nothing in them excessive, nothing overwrought, nothing strained into turgidity, obscurity, and nonsense.
Literary and Social Essays
Usage of turgidness in inglés
1
He degenerates occasionally into mere turgidness and verbosity, as in the following lines:
Lives of the English Poets / From Johnson to Kirke White, Design...
2
All his compositions were a mixture of truth and turgidness, of lucid strength and faltering stupidity.
Jean-Christophe, Volume I
Frequent collocations
Translations for turgidness
portugués
flatulência
catalán
turgència
Turgidness through the time