high-sounding vs turgid

high-sounding

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

  • Having an elevated or moralistic tone; pompous. 

turgid

adj
  • Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic. 

  • Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force. 

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