grandiloquently
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gran·dil·o·quence
(grăn-dĭl′ə-kwəns)n.
Pompous or bombastic speech or expression.
[From grandiloquent, from Latin grandiloquus : grandis, great + loquī, to speak; see tolkw- in Indo-European roots.]
gran·dil′o·quent adj.
gran·dil′o·quent·ly adv.
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Adv. | 1. | grandiloquently - in a rhetorically grandiloquent manner; "the orator spoke magniloquently" |
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grandiloquently
adv speak → hochtrabend; announce → großspurig; expressed, phrased, described → hochtrabend, grandios
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