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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 grandiloquent
 (a.)誇張的,誇大的,浮誇的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Gran·dil·o·quent a.  Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 grandiloquent
      adj 1: lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never
             really realizes what he is saying" [syn: magniloquent,
              tall]
      2: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful
         manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech";
         "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"-
         Newsweek [syn: overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous]