flowery vs high-sounding

flowery

adj
  • overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance 

  • Decorated with or abundant in flowers. 

  • Pertaining to flowers. 

high-sounding

adj
  • Oratorial, sometimes to the point of sounding contrived. 

  • Having an elevated or moralistic tone; pompous. 

How often have the words flowery and high-sounding occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )