Mary was always careful to never stop short of excessive grandiloquence when a simple "Yes that was quite nice" would have quite sufficed.
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Grandiloquence
Synonyms for "grandiloquence" (99 found)
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11 translations across 8 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- високопарност noun (lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing)
- надутост noun (lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing)
Catalan
1 entries- grandiloqüència noun (lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing)
Dutch
3 entries- bombast noun (lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing)
- grootspraak noun (lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing)
- hoogdravendheid noun (lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing)
Finnish
1 entries- sanahelinä noun (lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing)
French
1 entries- grandiloquence noun (lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing)
Polish
1 entries- grandilokwencja noun (lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing)
Portuguese
1 entries- grandiloquência noun (lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing)
Spanish
1 entries- grandilocuencia noun (lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing)
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