What does phrasemongery mean?
Phrasemongery means Elaborate or bombastic speech or writing..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Elaborate or bombastic speech or writing..
He may sometimes exaggerate the truth for the sake of the expression, sometimes perhaps sacrifice it; but he never degenerates into mere phrasemongery.
Count among its faults the phrasemongery that ran riot a while back.
Indeed, high-sounding speeches and scenes of stormy and tumultuous excitement were not lacking; but with all this, as it seemed to me, there was too little of an earnest and thoughtful exchange of opinions between eminent men, and too much of theatrical attitudinizing and of declamatory phrasemongery.
Altogether, the obvious incongruity between Russia's actual situation and the interminable repetition by boasting officials of their tactless phrasemongery about complete victory over Germany and Russia's hereditary mission with regard to Turkey infuriated the exhausted masses.
Use phrasemongery when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Phrasemongery means Elaborate or bombastic speech or writing..
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He may sometimes exaggerate the truth for the sake of the expression, sometimes perhaps sacrifice it; but he never degenerates into mere phrasemongery.
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