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• n  high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation

• Not a single moment of Hannah's play suffers from grandiloquence or hyperbole.
• The grandiloquence of Patricia's lawyer during his opening argument did not impress the Judge.
• He sometimes joked that his duty in the "gas bag" must have had something to do with his later grandiloquence.

• grandiosity
• magniloquence
• ornateness
• rhetoric

News & Articles

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• The Newsroom Recap: The Shot Clock Runs Out
  This is more like what we signed up for. Main characters revealing their psyche through small moments rather than grandiloquence; incredibly smart people doing their jobs well but still thwarted anyway; a vamping Jane Fonda; self-aware Deep Throat references — this is the show we were expecting. Over the past ... More »        
  Aug. 26, 2013 - Vulture