tumid
- s ostentatiously lofty in style
tumid political prose - s abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
puffy tumid flesh - s of sexual organs; stiff and rigid
- In the last 20 years, Lebrun has moved from drawings and wash paintings as direct and simple as those of the Renaissance to increasingly tumid and tormented shapes that at times .
- The sex scenes in Body Heat are humid and tumid enough, but they are there to serve the symmetry of Kasdan's visual and narrative design.
- Written in that vein, Love and Death in the American Novel is a tumid, quasi-psychoanalytic study in which Critic Fiedler tries to strip American literature down to a heavily .