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bombast noun affectation, boastfulness, boasting, braggery, chatter, declamation, diatribe, embellishment, empty talk, enlargement, euphemism, exaggeration, flatulence, floridness, fustian, garnishing, grandiosity, harangue, high coloring, high-sounding words, hyperbole, idle speeches, inanity, inflation, loftiness, magnification, magniloquence, oration, ornamentation, ostentation, overstatement, polysyllabic profundity, pomposity, pompous prolixity, prate, preciosity, pretentiousness, rant, raving, rhetoric, rhetoricalness, rodomontade, sesquipedalian words, sesquipedalism, sesquipedality, superlative, swelling utterance, swollen diccion, tirade, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, vainglory, verbiage See also: fustian, harangue, peroration How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It's planting yourself and speaking as loudly and bombastically as you can. Senate Bill 1523, by the bombastically business-hating Democrat Richard Alarcon of Sun Valley, seeks to punish Wal-Mart. Perhaps Gaines faced a dilemma as a black man writing within the parameters of bombastically prescriptive black masculinist nationalistic discourse (and during what many now regard as the "second renaissance" of black writing), one that excoriated Baldwin for being gay and thereby testosterone-deficient. |
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