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bombast

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  1. mahtipontisuus

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bombast

  1. mahtailevuus, suurellisuus, suurisuuntaisuus, mahtipontisuus, pateettisuus, hienostelevuus, koukeroisuus, korkealentoisuus, paatoksellisuus, korusanaisuus, sanahelinä, paasaus, roskapuhe, korkealentoinen puhe, korkealentoinen teksti, paatos, humpuuki, hölynpöly.

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mahtipontisuus Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.
Lupton

a candle with a wick of bombast
Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.
Shakespeare
How now, my sweet creature of bombast!
Stubbes
doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least
puhekieltä high-sounding High-sounding words; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking; language above the dignity of the occasion.
Dryden
Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid.
(quote-book)
To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.
(quote-book)|title=Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4.|chapter=|edition=|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10801
2013, (w), https://books.google.com/books?id=BCWyWjeMAFcC&pg=PT207&dq=bombasting&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEcQ6AEwCDgeahUKEwjr9aGRu67HAhWBPogKHbwtChsv=onepage&q=bombasting&f=false What Dread Hand?: A Collection of Short Stories
The ugly truth is, Gerald,' she said viciously, 'that you're a phoney, a rotten, bombasting phoney, trying to cover up from all the world, (..)
High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
He evades them with a bombast circumstance, / Horribly stuffed with epithets of war.
Cowley
Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way.

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