Grandiloquize

Quick meaning: Grandiloquize is a verb meaning (intransitive) To speak in a grandiloquent manner.

Meaning

(intransitive) To speak in a grandiloquent manner.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To describe (something) in terms that exaggerate its importance or impressiveness.

Example Sentences

Our next resting place bears the sounding name of the “Plinlimmon Hotel,” a small way-side hostel at Eisteddfa Gurrig, so grandiloquized; and hence, procuring a guide, the summit of the hoary mountain is generally ascended.

Burch stammers, “Er, well, you see, that is . . .” He grandiloquizes, “As per our discussion, be that as it may, we must prioritize, let’s have lunch.” He says, “Abba dee, abba dee, that’s all folks,” and pretends he has forgotten how to speak English.

Il Riscatto dell’ Italia takes a high flight, and grandiloquizes on the past abjectness and present glory of Italy; whilst the Costituzione and the Costituzionale walk on earth, and advocate moderation in the exercise of a boon which has been granted by the loving Ferdinand to his “amatissimi sudditi.”

Every now and then, in the cowslip season, her ladyship used to be taken rural, and “babble of green fields.” She would sigh over the advertisements of the auctioneers, grandiloquizing the glories of Richmond Hill or the beauties of Shenley, till “the greenth and gloomth” of Horace Walpole were outdone.

Word Forms

• grandiloquizes
• grandiloquizing
• grandiloquized
• grandiloquise

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