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magniloquently
adverb
formal mainly disapprovinguk /mæɡˈnɪl.ə.kwənt.li/ us /mæɡˈnɪl.ə.kwənt.li/
in a way that uses complicated language, especially in order to make someone or something seem intelligent or important:
She raised her head and addressed the crowd magniloquently.
The project was magniloquently praised, but its effects were only temporary.
Mr Jones stood at the front of the hall and spoke magniloquently.
Some parts of the constitution are most magniloquently worded, but not always with precise grammatical correctness.
He talks magniloquently about the situation, and yet does nothing.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Exaggerating & playing down
bloviate
blow something out of proportionidiom
cartoonish
cartoonishly
catastrophize
fulsome
go overboardidiom
inflated
make a mountain out of a molehillidiom
make much of somethingidiom
make something of something/someone
meal
mildly
minimization
OTT
over-egg
protest too muchidiom
romanticize
underplay
underrate
Synonym
grandiloquently Related wordmagniloquent
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