: marked by a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language
a grandiloquent and boastful speech about his great accomplishments danced to a rarely heard, grandiloquent … score—Janet Flanner the latter's Self Portrait … was done in a more grandiloquent manner—Wolfgang Stechow with a grandiloquent gesture—Willard Robertson the grandiloquent hero of a drama—Mary Webb grandiloquent summer estates—Bernard DeVoto
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