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fustianadjective marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrasesone of those fustian odes to patriotic duty that were so beloved by school teachers bombastic, flatulent, gaseous, gassy, grandiloquent, oratorical, orotund, rhetorical(also rhetoric), windy bloated, elevated, florid, flowery, grandiose, highfalutin(also hifalutin), high-flown, high-sounding, inflated, lofty, ornate, pompous, pontifical, pretentious, stilted, tumid, turgidoverdone, verbose, wordy unrhetorical eloquent, well-spokenbald, direct, matter-of-fact, plain, plainspoken, simple, stark, straightforward, unadorned, unaffected, unpretentious language that is impressive-sounding but not meaningful or sincerea speech awash in old-fashioned fustian and bereft of all substance bombast, gas, grandiloquence, hot air, oratory, rhetoric, verbiage, wind claptrap, drivel, gibberish, hogwash, humbug, jabberwocky, jazz, moonshine, nonsenseaffectedness, floweriness, grandiosity, loftiness, pomposity, pretension, pretentiousnessgarrulity, garrulousness, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordiness in the 13th century |