magniloquent
IPA: mægnˈɪɫʌkwʌnt
adjective
- Speaking pompously; using deliberately long or esoteric words.
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Examples of "magniloquent" in Sentences
- Paul disturbed him with a magniloquent shouting.
- Finally, his magniloquent insist turned out to be a lie.
- As for my magniloquent, you can clearly see my dedication.
- I had a magniloquent and concrete inspiration for the project.
- Phil give utterance to the same in the most magniloquent words.
- Stop using any magniloquent sentences when you are not confident.
- According to her own magniloquent phrase, she was extremely nervous.
- When my mother tells me to do something, she shows her magniloquent thoughts.
- Fredric always emphasizes about the magniloquent ideas that he had for holidays.
- After this magniloquent assertion the poor kids had to move out from the apartment.
- Yeah, I agree the whole Tebow thing got to be too much, saturated with hyperbole and strained, magniloquent theories about why he'd become the country's most-discussed athlete.
- Edmund Spenser's refrain "Sweet Thames! run softly, till I end my song" is often quoted in disquisitions upon it; but the loud magniloquent song of the Thames itself will never end.
- "Come Around Sundown," the band's fifth album, is thick with growly, momentous rock songs that arrive in an era dominated by magnificent pop stars (Lady Gaga), magniloquent rap stars (Lil Wayne) and mash-ups of the two (Kanye West).
- Before he even speaks we glean Quixote's character -- eloquent, fearless and frail -- in Gaines' gestures and movement, so that when he launches into some magniloquent knight errant business, it only confirms what we already knew about him.
- But already, before that final catastrophe, the second world war showed up the weakness of industry despite all the magniloquent (and typically fascist) boasting that it was as efficient as that of America and far better than that of Soviet Russia.
- His magniloquent posturing and googly-eyed visage imbue the picture with an irresistible mixture of foolhardy bravado and touching fearlessness needed by practitioners of a blood sport that Picasso identified as having much in common with his own high-risk line of work.
- Briefly, _Tamburlaine_ -- the play which made the greatest impression on the playwrights of its time -- may be described as a magniloquent account of the career of a world-conqueror whose resistless triumph over kingdoms and potentates, signalized by acts of monstrous insolence, provides excuse for outbursts of extravagant vainglory.