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rhetorical, adj.
more info given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought
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rhetorical

sample sentences

"mere rhetorical frippery"
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derivationally related form
rhetoric
antonym
unrhetorical
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fancy figurative, nonliteral
similar to
bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid flowery, ornate empurpled, over-embellished, purple forensic grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall oratorical poetic, poetical stylistic
more info of or relating to rhetoric
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rhetorical

sample sentences

"accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"- W.A.White
"the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"- Lewis Mumford
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derivationally related form
rhetoric
derived from/pertains to
rhetoric