I don't doubt he's very smart, nevertheless he's very boastful and magniloquent.
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Magniloquent
Synonyms for "magniloquent" (56 found)
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2 entriesTranslations
14 translations across 6 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- високопарен adj (speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic)
French
1 entries- grandiloquent adj (speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic)
Hungarian
2 entries- dagályos adj (speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic)
- fellengzős adj (speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic)
Irish
1 entries- mórfhoclach adj (speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic)
Latin
2 entries- magniloquens adj (speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic)
- magniloquus adj (speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic)
Spanish
4 entries- altilocuente adj (speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic)
- altisonante adj (speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic)
- altílocuo adj (speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic)
- grandilocuente adj (speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic)
Sample sentences
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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.
Source: wiktionary
The sermonizer, said Dwight [Macdonald], was guilty of "puerile, stupid twaddle" and seemed to have "a remarkable power of hypnotizing himself with magniloquent platitudes."
Source: wiktionary
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