elocutionary
- a of or relating to elocution
elocutionary recitals - s (used of style of speaking) overly embellished
an elocutionary Oxonian delivery
- Hampden's performance was straightforward, stately and without elocutionary claptrap.
- It was also full of resonance, and even its more awkward, elocutionary passages had the ring of sincerity.
- News-starved reporters based endless prognostications on Ike's posture and color, analyzed his inflections with elocutionary zeal.