inflated speech

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  • fustian — I adjective bombastic, declamatory, flatulent, gausape, grandiloquent, grandiose, high flown, high sounding, inflated, mouthy, orotund, pompous, pretentious, ranting, swollen, tumid, turgid II noun affectation, altiloquence, bombast, bombastic… …   Law dictionary

  • bombast — noun Etymology: Middle English bombast cotton padding, from Middle French bombace, from Medieval Latin bombac , bombax cotton, alteration of Latin bombyc , bombyx silkworm, silk, from Greek bombyk , bombyx Date: 1583 pretentious inflated speech… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • grandiloquence —    not eloquence, for inflated speech …   Dictionary of troublesome word

  • dithyramb — [ dɪθɪram(b)] noun a wildly ecstatic choral hymn of ancient Greece, especially one dedicated to the god Dionysus. ↘a passionate or inflated speech, poem, or text. Derivatives dithyrambic adjective Origin C17: via L. from Gk dithurambos …   English new terms dictionary

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  • United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …   Universalium

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