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magniloquent

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magniloquent
adjective
a magniloquent lawyer |
his magniloquent phraseology:
grandiloquent, high-sounding, high-flown, lofty, heroic, grandiose, ornate, pompous, pretentious, bombastic, overblown, overripe, rhetorical, oratorical, orotund, declamatory, sonorous, rotund, stilted, turgid, boastful, bragging, braggart, Falstaffian;
informal highfalutin;
rare fustian.
antonyms terse, crisp.