Declamatory

declamatory
    adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large
           talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: {bombastic},
           {declamatory}, {large}, {orotund}, {tumid}, {turgid}]
    

Declamatory \De*clam"a*to*ry\, a. [L. declamatorius: cf. F.
   d['e]clamatoire.]
   1. Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a
      rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.
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   2. Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously
      rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic;
      noisy; as, a declamatory way or style.
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55 Moby Thesaurus words for "declamatory":
      Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aureate, bedizened,
      big-sounding, bombastic, convoluted, elevated, elocutionary,
      eloquent, euphuistic, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting,
      flowery, forensic, fulsome, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent,
      grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying,
      high-sounding, highfalutin, inkhorn, labyrinthine, lexiphanic,
      lofty, lurid, magniloquent, meretricious, oratorical, orotund,
      ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought,
      pedantic, pompous, pretentious, rhetorical, sensational,
      sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, stilted, tall,
      tortuous