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" (112 found)
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Strong matches (33)
exaggerationexcessexorbitanceexpansionexpression of ideasextravaganceextremefashionfeeling for wordsflatulenceform of speechgaudinessgrace of expressionhard wordheighteninghucksteringhyperbolehyperbolisminflationinordinacy
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Noun(5 words)
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modemode of expressionoratoryorotundityostentationoveremphasisoverestimationoverkilloverstatementpeculiaritypersonal stylepolysyllablepompositypompousnesspontificalitypontificationpretensionprodigalityprofusenesspuffery
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puffing upravingrhetoricself-importancesensationalismsense of languagesesquipedalianstrainstretchingstuffinessstylestylistic analysisstylisticssuperlativetall talkthe grand stylethe plain stylethe sublimetoutingtravestytrickturgidityveinverbosityway
Adjective(1 words)
ornate diction
Noun(10 words)
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6 entriesbombastic dictionflorid phraseologyflorid sentence structuregrandiose proseornate dictionrhetorical flourish
Collocations
5 entriesgrandiloquent rhetoricgrandiloquent speechgrandiloquent styleornate grandiloquencerhetorical grandiloquence
Inflections
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