What's the difference between fustian and magniloquent?

Fustian


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
  • (n.) An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast.
  • (a.) Made of fustian.
  • (a.) Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Where Nicholson had been fustian, Blanchflower was all flair and illumination, a tremendous inspiration to his teams.

Magniloquent


Definition:

  • (a.) Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So one theory has it that, as the former political speechwriter Barton Swaim has written, Trump is popular precisely because “he never uses magniloquent rhetoric for any reason.
  • (2) We’re going to win so much and we’re going to make America great again.” This actually is magniloquent rhetoric, but it is also dazzlingly vague.

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