Crossword clues for grandiloquence
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grandiloquence \Gran*dil"o*quence\, n. The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense.
The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking.
--Thackeray,
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing
WordNet
n. high flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation [syn: grandiosity, magniloquence, rhetoric]
Wikipedia
Grandiloquence is pompous boastfulness or self-importance, particularly in speech or writing. It does not mean flowery speech, an extravagant vocabulary or excessive verbosity: indeed, grandiloquent language can be very concise and simple in its wording.
Usage examples of "grandiloquence".
It is extravagant grandiloquence confined to a newspaper about the size of a double letter sheet.
Despite the hypocritical grandiloquence and affected piety of the narrative, it was easy to see that, save some warping of facts to make for himself a better case, and to extol the courage of the gaolers who had him at their mercy, the narrator had not attempted to better his tale by the invention of perils.