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flatulentadjective marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phraseson election night TV's self-important pundits let loose a fusillade of flatulent pontifications bombastic, fustian, 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 in 1599 |