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UK
/ɡɹˌændɪˈɒsɪti/
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NOUN
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high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
the grandiosity of his prose
an excessive ornateness of language
How To Use grandiosity In A Sentence
- The oversized type, the grandiosity of the title rankled him. NPR Topics: News
- That speaks to more grandiosity, which is a part of a sociopathic personality disorder. CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2008
- Succeed to start here, hope from spark here". The grandiosity reaches to create the wealth together with you. Welcome the large businessman telephones to talk over.
- And his grandiosity has been his defense, which is, you know, I'm a senator. CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2007
- To argue that blogs are different goes well beyond “triumphalism” — I’d call it grandiosity, or narcissism. Defying definition « BuzzMachine
- In their glory days, drive-ins expressed a particular, wacky strain of American imagination, their grandiosity and gadgetry revealing a culture captivated by technology.
- Million Dollar Baby almost crazily tries to hold the ill-assorted gritty details together with depressive grandiosity, and I guess in some inchoate way Eastwood is entertaining epic pretensions.
- More important than her posture of self-martyring altruism was the vagueness of her masochistic grandiosity.
- In a bit of cloak-and-dagger grandiosity, the firms dubbed their collaboration Team Themis, after a titan of Greek mythology who embodied natural law.
- Music that has a megalomaniac quality, that creates a portentous grandiosity without much in the way of inner self-reflexivity.