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adjective

magniloquent

using high-flown or bombastic language

In a sentence

Six example sentences with magniloquent, each labelled with its topic.

  • His magniloquent address ran ninety minutes and promised a golden century, yet listed not one measure the council could vote on.

    Politics

  • The lecturer grew magniloquent whenever the argument thinned, filling the room with grand phrases and very few actual claims.

    Philosophy

  • The villain speaks in magniloquent paragraphs about destiny while the hero answers in three words and leaves the room.

    Movies

  • The narrator's magniloquent style, all thunder and Latin, hides a plot that could fit on a postcard.

    Literature

  • The pitch deck was magniloquent, promising to reinvent human connection, yet slide nine showed forty users.

    Startups

  • The artist's statement was magniloquent, invoking eternity and the cosmos to describe three grey rectangles.

    Art

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