Crossword-Solution: GRANDILOQUENCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Grandiloquence | n. | The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “GRANDILOQUENCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Pompous speech | 2 answers |
| Pompous talk | 3 answers |
| long words | 5 answers |
| A POMPOUS SPEECH | 10 answers |
| inflation | 21 answers |
| flatulence | 23 answers |
| High tone? | 30 answers |
| Eloquence | 34 answers |
| lip service | 37 answers |
| Bombast | 52 answers |
| exaggeration | 68 answers |
| pomposity | 69 answers |
| Declamation | 80 answers |
| Bounce | 85 answers |
| flourish | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with GRANDILOQUENCE (5)
Whenever Hudson uttered some peculiarly striking piece of youthful grandiloquence, Cecilia broke into a long, light, familiar laugh.
But for my deep-seated impressions that treasure was here somewhere actually buried, we might have had all our labor in vain.” “But your grandiloquence, and your conduct in swinging the beetle— how excessively odd! I was sure you were mad.
Intensifying for a moment the grandiloquence of his manner, he called upon his master's most distinguished and happily arrived old friend, the Lord Lieutenant Governor of the Golden Californias, to corroborate his statement.
Undoubtedly, in this work, as in other youthful writings, he follows as well as he can the authors in vogue--Rousseau, and especially Raynal; he gives a schoolboy imitation of their tirades, their sentimental declamation, and their humanitarian grandiloquence.
This was no uncommon thing in those days, when many a ranchero with his eleven leagues of land, his hundreds of horses and thousands of cattle, would receive us with all the grandiloquence of a Spanish lord, and confess that he had nothing in his house to eat except the carcass of a beef hung up, from which the stranger might cut and cook, without money or price, what he needed.
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Appears in: USA TODAY.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1997).