Magniloquent
"Magniloquent" in a Sentence (3 examples)
I don't doubt he's very smart, nevertheless he's very boastful and magniloquent.
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 but perissological otiosity.
The sermonizer, said Dwight [Macdonald], was guilty of "puerile, stupid twaddle" and seemed to have "a remarkable power of hypnotizing himself with magniloquent platitudes."
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