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rhetoricnoun language that is impressive-sounding but not meaningful or sincerethe mayor's promise to fight drugs was just rhetoric, since there was no money in the city budget for a drug program bombast, fustian, gas, grandiloquence, hot air, oratory, verbiage, wind claptrap, drivel, gibberish, hogwash, humbug, jabberwocky, jazz, moonshine, nonsenseaffectedness, floweriness, grandiosity, loftiness, pomposity, pretension, pretentiousnessgarrulity, garrulousness, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordiness the art or power of speaking or writing in a forceful and convincing waygreat leaders have often been masters of rhetoric, which they have used for both good and ill articulacy(chiefly British), articulateness, eloquence, poetry expression, expressivenessdeclamation, elocution, oratorycogency, force, forcefulness, meaningfulness, persuasion, persuasivenessardor, emotion, fervency, fervidness, fervor, heat, intensity, passion, power, vehemence, warmth gift of gab inarticulateness in the 14th century |