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Synset

high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
<noun.communication>

grandiloquence more info
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sample sentences

"the grandiosity of his prose"
"an excessive ornateness of language"
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grandiose
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magniloquent
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ornate
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grandiloquent
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hyponym
flourish bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah
hypernym
style, expressive style