Word
high-sounding, adj.
pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)
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high-flown
high-sounding
inflated
sample sentences
"high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"
"a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution"
semantic pointers
similar to
pretentious
domain of synset (usage)
colloquialism