tumid

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Borrowed from Latin tumidus (“swollen”).

Fu-Manchu picked his way through the fungi ranks as daintily as though the distorted, tumid things had been viper-headed. — The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, Sax Rohmer
The tumid phrase and melodramatic figuring-- 'Dark and unearthly is the scowl That glares beneath his dusky cowl'-- are now worn-out theatrical properties; yet those who have seen the untamed Asiatic might find it hard to overdraw the murderous hate and sullen ferocity that his face, or his victim's, will occasionally disclose. — Studies in Literature and History, Alfred C., Sir Lyall
Plato carried away the surname of Divine, by so universal a consent that never any one repined at it, or attempted to take it from him; and yet the Italians, who pretend, and with good reason, to more sprightly wits and sounder sense than the other nations of their time, have lately bestowed the same title upon Aretin, in whose writings, save tumid phrases set out with smart periods, ingenious indeed but far-fetched and fantastic, and the eloquence, be it what it may, I see nothing in him above the ordinary writers of his time, so far is he from approaching the ancient divinity. — Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete, Michel de Montaigne

bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, turgid

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