Examples
“Overview: For his most popular book, Tom Brokaw coined the grandiloquent term ‘The Greatest Generation’ for the Americans who fought and triumphed in the crucible of World War II.”
“Indeed, judged by Anglo-Saxon habit, they would be termed grandiloquent and verbose.”
“The study also faults America for relying on "grandiloquent" rhetoric rather than careful diplomacy to build support for its missions.”
“One thing you notice is that the smaller and crappier a country is, the more soaring and grandiloquent is the music of its anthem, even where the lyrics don't say a lot because the country doesn't have much to brag about inasmuch as it has a turnip-based economy.”
“By the end of my visit I would have been happy to see photographs of kittens or even some grandiloquent paintings by Julian Schnabel, anything not so proud of being self-referential and small time.”
“Please show me where I was “insincere” or used “grandiloquent language” in #7.”
“Although the term “rhetoric” has several meanings, most of which are positive, am I right in assuming you are attaching this meaning to it: insincere or grandiloquent language?”
“With such grandiloquent kitsch (and the author's implicit acceptance of its absurdity) and a cleverly freighted jeer thrown at a bandmate, we have the ingredients of a definitive rock star memoir.”
The Wall Street Journal: So You Want To Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star
“Then Tennant was back to the theater to play Hamlet, so what would have been 2009's season became a handful of specials, all leading up to a Christmas and New Year's two-parter in which the tenth doctor passed on in another grandiloquent Russell T. Davies spectacular, this time called "The End of Time.”
The Huffington Post: William Bradley: A Welcome Blast From the New Doctor Who
“Not that I am likening the Sardinian sex parties and dodgy property portfolios of our crooning capitalist to the gorgeously grandiloquent goings-on of that jewel-encrusted clan.”
The Huffington Post: Frederic Whyte: The Long-Overdue Demise of Silvio Berlusconi
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘grandiloquent’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4084 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( etymology )
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 837 more...
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The now-you're-just-showing-off ones
schadenfreude, syzygy, ennui, antidisestablishm..., portend, pulchritudinous, callipygian, grandiloquent, pontificate, tintinnabulate, cognoscenti, concatenation and 4 more...
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Desultory Digressions
Also known as EsotericWench's Word Holding Tank. These are words that have caught my fancy but I have yet to file in the appropriate list. If I don't capture them here, I won't capture them at all.
desultory, abjure, immethodical, mentalist, subvertising, schmaltzy, fartlek, interstitial, ear-rent, brouhaha, crufty, malefactor and 34 more...
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humpty's list
detrimental, hedonism, exonerate, extemporaneous, labyrinth, diffidence, brazen, celerity, alacrity, bigotry, phantasmagorical, sardonic and 14 more...
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The Aleph
Words found in a collection of short stories by Jorge Luis Borges.
travail, magnanimous, troglodyte, euphorbia, satyr, lascivious, caustic, frontispiece, temerity, vertiginous, frieze, cupola and 72 more...
Prolagus Defenatly. Nov 18, 2008
reesetee Why is "homosexual" the best word? Like him or not, there are certainly other aspects to the man. Nov 18, 2008
bilby Try schadenfreudgiloquent. Nov 18, 2008
gangerh Quentessentially, yes. Nov 18, 2008
shadowkeir Truman Capote? I think not. homosexual is the best word to describe him.
Is this word not synonomous with magniloquent? Nov 18, 2008
tiptoe39 Words that define themselves? Jan 13, 2008
agreatnotion The best word to describe Truman Capote. Dec 10, 2006