(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.