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单词 grandiloquent
释义
grandiloquent
adjective
formalmainlydisapproving
uk
/ɡrænˈdɪl.ə.kwənt/us
/ɡrænˈdɪl.ə.kwənt/
A grandiloquentstyleor way of usinglanguageiscomplicatedinordertoattractadmirationandattention,especiallyinorderto make someone or somethingseemimportant:
（尤指为了使某人或者某物显得重要而）卖弄词藻的，言辞浮夸的，过分华丽的
Herspeechwasfullof grandiloquentlanguage, but itcontainedno newideas.她的演讲虽然充满了华丽的词藻，但却没有什么新意。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Exaggerating & playing down
  • alarmist
  • bloviate
  • blowsomethingout of proportionidiom
  • cartoonish
  • catastrophize
  • dramatization
  • dramatize
  • exaggerate
  • minimize
  • OTT
  • over-egg
  • overboard
  • overdramatic
  • overdramatize
  • overembellish
  • overplay
  • overstatement
  • pile
  • proportion
  • stretch the truthidiom
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grandiloquence
grandiloquently
(Definition ofgrandiloquentfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgrandiloquent

grandiloquent
Exploration could be packaged into potent images: in the popular narratives of explorers themselves, the display of artefacts and relics, polar spectacles and panoramas, or agrandiloquentoil on canvas.
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These questions, too, must be answered if one is to lapse intograndiloquentlyricism; otherwise, one pulls the wool over citizens' eyes.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
I do not want to soundgrandiloquentabout this, but in many ways we have led the world in terms of principles of legal practice.
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I do not want to use toograndiloquentlanguage for it, but there is the constitutional problem.
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The actual document is, of course, replete withgrandiloquentdeclarations and high-flown aspirations.
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The summits'grandiloquentfinal declarations are frequently, and perhaps rather embarrassingly, contrasted with the paucity of the results they actually achieved.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
We are told ingrandiloquentterms that we have got command of the sea.
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There are a good many houses to which this exception might apply that are hardly entitled to sograndiloquenta name as mansion.
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The reason may be the phraseology—the somewhatgrandiloquentphrase "corporate governance".
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Such agrandiloquentclaim deserves to be tested.
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I congratulate the draftsman who prescribed the constitution of this particular board in suchgrandiloquentterms.
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What are the guidelines and what is the basis on which thisgrandiloquentgesture is to be made?
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Before then, thegrandiloquentposturings of world-weary statesmen in their council chambers will be seen as the mutterings of emperors without clothes.
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Thesegrandiloquentphrases are absolute bunkum; they mean completely nothing.
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These words are much toograndiloquentto describe what we are putting before you.
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