turgid

How To Use turgid In A Sentence

• There are some sharp lines and a couple of catchy songs but there's also a lot of turgid stuff. Times, Sunday Times
• He pulls out the original drum track, throws in a turgid approximation of the live drums with a drum machine and a stiff boom-kick, adds some bloops, bleeps, and squiggles (because, hey, it's a remix), and cashes his paycheck.
• Grecian; they had laughing eyes their figures were models for an artist with — “Turgide, brune, e ritondette mamme.” like the ‘bending statue’ that delights the world. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
• Water at the roots will keep plant stems and leaves turgid and able to photosynthesize.
• It would be all too easy to launch into an assault on Kelly and Co. for being bland, middle-of-the-road and turgid.
• It was pretty turgid stuff from both teams. The Sun
• Do not rush out to buy the DVD, it was turgid stuff. The Sun
• Paper colored by turmeric introduced into the other tube had its color much deepened; the acid matter gave a very slight degree of turgidness to solution of nitrate of soda. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
• The book has its tedious and turgid passages, but the work is held together by a genuine sense of protest, first of all, against the brutality and irrationality of the penal system.
• It's painful to imagine the planning meeting that produced this turgid number. Times, Sunday Times