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declamatory

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declamatory
adjective
his speech-making was quiet and factual, very different from Clark's declamatory style:
rhetorical, oratorical, elaborate, ornate, bold, extravagant, flowery, florid, dramatic, theatrical, lofty, high-flown, high-sounding, bombastic, magniloquent, grandiloquent, overblown, overripe, overdone, overwrought, affected, orotund, inflated, overinflated, pompous, pretentious;
informal highfalutin, purple;
rare fustian, tumid, euphuistic, aureate, Ossianic.