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declamatory

dec·la·ma·tory

UK/dɪˈklæmətɹi/ uncommon

adjective

1.

ostentatiously lofty in style

  • “a man given to large talk”
  • “tumid political prose”

Origin

Equivalent to declaim + -atory.

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