euphuistic
Example Sentences
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In truth, while Ros’s pathos-filled classic now reads as unintentionally comic, its euphuistic style isn’t that much different from the circumlocutions found in late Henry James.
From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2018
Mistress of euphuistic words, she is carried away by their glamor, too easily seduced from reason.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Early in July, Molotov was listed as a signer of the euphuistic vale to the departed Georgi Dimitrov.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He found the play arch and pretentious: "The language becomes picky, tricky; at once rigid and self-indulgent, as though everything were being translated from some strangely euphuistic Latin."
From Time Magazine Archive
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The emperor, who bears the various euphuistic titles of the “Brother of the Sun and Moon.”
From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 by Walker, Aaron