grandiloquent
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Prone to social media outbursts, grandiloquent speeches and public spats, Petro has burned through more than 60 ministers in four years.
From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026
Daniel Barenboim led a grandiloquent “Heldenleben” at Segerstrom Center’s older, acoustically troubled hall on an earlier visit of the Vienna Philharmonic.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025
In part that is because it is so representative: grandiloquent and absurd at the same time; the words of a diva, uttered at a time when divas were going out of style.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2022
The people in Hawley's version of Kansas City's criminal underworld and its adjacent parts are men and women – men, mostly – naturally given to grandiloquent speech and extensive verbosity.
From Salon • Sep. 27, 2020
I trim the grandiloquent excesses on this and the other answer before e-mailing them to Amu.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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