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grandiloquently

/gran-dil-uh-kwuhnt/US // grænˈdɪl ə kwənt //UK // (ɡrænˈdɪləkwənt) //

大言不惭地,慷慨激昂地,大言不惭,大声地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.

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Examples

  • In 2014, this might sound grandiloquent and overstated, but in 1994 there were few openly gay men on TV, and few people with AIDS.

  • Yet a moment like this seems so overblown, so grandiloquent, and so self-consciously heroic that it simply stuns me.

  • And then there was the grandiloquent Republican leader Everett Dirksen.

  • A celebrity whose egocentric and grandiloquent pronouncements reveal a potentially dangerous person in serious need of help?

  • Note as well their wily use of the word "stuff"—a bit of vernacular so the message doesn't get too grandiloquent.

  • I was unanimously recalled, and—to be grandiloquent—received with applause that made the welkin ring.

  • Just off the main square we secured quarters in a typical French inn of the second class, a small place with a grandiloquent name.

  • This relative of his, with his plausible and grandiloquent schemes, stood revealed a bankrupt swindler of the worst type.

  • If called on to prove his power, this grandiloquent Satan would turn out, I fear, to be a sorry thaumaturgist.

  • Friedrich has still his hopes of Bavaria, so grandiloquent are the French in regard to it; who but would hope?