grandiloquence
Example Sentences
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As is usually the case when His Grandiloquence gets into trouble, Jackson has a scapegoat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Grandiloquence will produce, in the more intelligent of your audience, an amused smile, and while it is well to have your hearers smile with you, they should never have reason to smile at you.
From The Art of Lecturing Revised Edition by Lewis, Arthur M. (Arthur Morrow)
Meaning that she is as poor as a rat, Madam Grandiloquence.
From Leonore Stubbs by Walford, L. B.
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