Meaning of altiloquent | Babel Free

Definitions

Pompous, or pretentious in speech

Examples

“[T]hey listened, dazzle-eyed- secretly making lists- to grandly romantic trash: bad poetry, stupid theology- altiloquent designs in the empty air.”

“He remembered that the politeness seemed too elaborate, too florid, altiloquent to the extent of insincerity.”

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