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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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Some of the politicians who give grandiloquent speeches on Europe's future seem to know history only as far back as Hitler, Stalin and the Cold War.
He duplicates the editors' preface in a rather grandiloquent manner.
You have to understand that he had a habit of making grandiloquent statements.
When the discussion was over, Gingrich was grandiloquent on the subject of his own grandiloquence.
But in no time one realizes that the claim is not grandiloquent, but humble.
Shakespeare, to many, is almost like Indian mythology with its larger-than-life characters and grandiloquent plots and dialogues.

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