📚 adj • entry_id 31954
magniloquent
Meanings (ES + gloss)
altilocuente • altisonante • altílocuo • grandilocuente • grandílocuo • magnílocuo (disused) • pomposo
Using pompous speech; speaking with deliberately long or esoteric words.
The sermonizer, said Dwight [Macdonald], was guilty of "puerile, stupid twaddle" and seemed to have "a remarkable power of hypnotizing himself with magniloquent platitudes."
There is no doubt that the ordinary reader would enjoy, and he certainly would profit much by, a revival of the classic work—if only he did not fall asleep over its magniloquent bu…
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