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What does grandiloquent mean?

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Adjective
  1. (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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He duplicates the editors' preface in a rather grandiloquent manner.
Shakespeare, to many, is almost like Indian mythology with its larger-than-life characters and grandiloquent plots and dialogues.
Elie is a busy man, and has no time for such grandiloquent nonsense.
When the discussion was over, Gingrich was grandiloquent on the subject of his own grandiloquence.
I can use the tools every other writer uses, the grandiloquent metaphors, the descriptions, but I don't think I'd be doing the reader any favors.
You have to understand that he had a habit of making grandiloquent statements.

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