High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.
To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.
To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.
Wordy, ostentatious talk or writing that resembles bureaucratic writing.
A style of language, typically used by bureaucrats, that involves jargon or euphemism to the detriment of broader understanding.