magniloquent
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Boris Johnson has long spun political gold from his magniloquent tongue, using what some linguists and observers say bombastic language, esoteric vocabulary, occasional crudity and episodes of bumbling bluster.
From Reuters • Jul. 23, 2019
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with the Revolution succeeded by the reign of Napoleon, that meant history painting: magniloquent tableaus — battles, shipwrecks, coronations — in which myth and reality met.
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2013
But he does most of his work in the faded, 95-year-old governor's mansion, as magniloquent and dated as an 1845 oration, at the edge of downtown Springfield.
From Time Magazine Archive
Percy Hammond, 63, since 1921 the New York Herald Tribune's witty and magniloquent drama critic; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nor can we expect to be always building Houses of Parliament; and, therefore, too soon the magniloquent patronage must come to an end.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various
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