adj. lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying"

adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"

adj. marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"

adj. able to deal authoritatively with affairs; "dismissed the matter with an imperious wave of her hand"

adj. exhibiting self-importance; "big talk"

adj. overly self-confident or self-assertive; "a very cocky young man"

adj. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

adj. elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"

adj. expressing extreme contempt

adj. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer

adj. marked by excessive confidence; "an arrogant and cocksure materialist"; "so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen"; "the less he knows the more positive he gets"

adj. characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes"

adj. excessively forward; "an assumptive person"; "on a subject like this it would be too assuming for me to decide"; "the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants"

adj. of a display that is tawdry or vulgar

adj. artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"

adj. exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

adj. (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension

adj. (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one

adj. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

adj. excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech embellished with classical quotations"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"

adj. of, relating to, or used in courts of law or public debate or argument

adj. characteristic of an orator or oratory; "oratorical prose"; "harangued his men in an oratorical way"- Robert Graves

adj. characteristic of or befitting poetry; "poetic diction"

adj. of or relating to style (especially in the use of language); "stylistic devices"

adj. showily imitative of art or artists

adj. pretentiously artistic; cloyingly charming

adj. pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals); "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution"

adj. affectedly genteel

adj. (British informal) upstart

adj. characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position

adj. given to the overuse of long words; "sesquipedalian orators"; "this sesquipedalian way of saying one has no money"

adj. free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes"