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Meanings of
grandiloquent
in английском
Puffed up with vanity.
pompous
portentous
overblown
pontifical
Related terms
pretentious
Lofty in style.
tall
magniloquent
Related terms
rhetorical
Synonyms
Examples for "
pompous
"
pompous
portentous
overblown
pontifical
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
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
.
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.
Usage of
grandiloquent
in английском
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
.
6
Her voice has a smooth timbre and she speaks directly: no
grandiloquent
rhetoric.
7
The house, in spite of its
grandiloquent
title, was of excessively shabby exterior.
8
He makes mistakes in grammar and construction, and is often stilted and
grandiloquent
.
9
This sounds somewhat
grandiloquent
,
but it seems to me somewhat like the truth.
10
And ten years before that it was something even more
grandiloquent
.
11
The genial Bud placed a chair for her with
grandiloquent
courtesy.
12
Pristina was an ugly town, by turns poor and pompous, grim and
grandiloquent
.
13
The whole passage is, of course, in parody of the
grandiloquent
style of Aeschylus.
14
Why I have known the weather in this
grandiloquent
condition for a whole day.
15
The same fate has befallen the
grandiloquent
mansions of other men before and since.
16
Theos
smiled
,
-
the
grandiloquent
manner of this self-importantindividual amused him.
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grandiloquent
Adjective
Frequent collocations
grandiloquent manner
most grandiloquent
grandiloquent gesture
grandiloquent style
grandiloquent air
More collocations
Grandiloquent
through the time
Grandiloquent
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