单词 | grandiosity |
释义 | grandiosity (once / 85032 pages) n WORD FAMILY grandiosity: grandiosities+/grandiose: grandiosely, grandiosity USAGE EXAMPLESHis show on Monday evening was a casually friendly career survey devoid of the preening grandiosity that often accompanies such autobiographies. New York Times(Nov 08, 2016) The man’s grandiosity, his sense of entitlement with impunity, his open cruelty toward women, minorities and disabled people were adopted by identification. The Guardian(Nov 12, 2016) With Bono-ish grandiosity, Aimee turns her attention to a village in Gambia where she decides to bypass the philanthropic establishment to build a girls’ school. Slate(Nov 10, 2016) n high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation the grandiosity of his prose Syn|Hypo|Hyper grandiloquence, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric flourish a display of ornamental speech or language blah, bombast, claptrap, fustian, rantpompous or pretentious talk or writing expressive style, style a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period |
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