altiloquent

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1. Pompous, or pretentious in speech

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

   1921, Holman Day, All Wool Morrison, Kessinger Publishing

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

   1976, John Gardner, Jason and Medeia, Ballantine Books