Read full poem →from the allegorical presentation of workmen's trousers in sculpture,
and the grandiloquent theorizing about the socialistic up-lift or
down-pull of smoke and machinery), Tailhade can move to personal satire,
Dictionary Entry
(of a person, their language or writing) given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive amount of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid
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style grandiloquent. grandiloquenttitle grandiloquentlanguage grandiloquentphrases grandiloquentterms grandiloquent
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Poetry examples for “grandiloquent”
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