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Bombast

October 23, 2023

bombast

bom-bast / bŏm-băst

noun 1. pompous, pretentious or grandiloquent language What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast! Jean de la Bruyere, 1645 - 1696
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