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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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Presidents and prime ministers in the West have made grandiloquent speeches about making poverty history for fifty years.
I can use the tools every other writer uses, the grandiloquent metaphors, the descriptions, but I don't think I'd be doing the reader any favors.
His grandiloquent claim that there are five branches of the fine arts, and that the greatest of these is confectionery, is famous.
To the delight of nineteenth-century readers, phrasings were predictably grandiloquent.
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.
But in no time one realizes that the claim is not grandiloquent, but humble.

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