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adjective

Turgid adj.

Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit. "A bladder... held near the fire grew turgid."

Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Turgid" Quotes from Famous Books

... History of Cooeperation, two volumes. This is the classical work on the subject, but its plan is so confused, its style so turgid, and its information so scattered, that, however amusing it may be, it is more interesting and valuable as a history of the period than as a clear account of the movement for which it is named. Mr. Holyoake has written two other ...

— An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England • Edward Potts Cheyney

... to put music to the familiar play by Sardou; an utterly futile attempt. A more sluggish and intolerable first act than the legal inquest it would be difficult to imagine. Fragments of inconsequential tunes float along on a turgid stream, above which the people of the play chatter and scream, becoming intelligible and interesting only when they lapse into ordinary speech. Ordinary speech, however, is the only kind of speech that an expeditious ...

— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel

... easy reading; his German style, though grammatical and idiomatic, is generally very involved and obscure, often turgid. There is a want of self-discipline about the thought, and he is too hasty in committing ill-digested thoughts ill-arranged to print, while his style is full of tedious mannerisms, such as his constant ...

— Wagner's Tristan und Isolde • George Ainslie Hight

... "Mademoiselle Marni" Miss Bingham herself must have spent an enormous sum that she would probably have hesitated to invest in some enterprise sane or possible. The play was a turgid coagulation of illogical episodes lacking in all plausibility. This particular actress is generally happy when she can select for herself a character that is beloved by all the masculine members of the cast. Apparently, she "sees" ...

— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various

... silence him, but Thaddeus insisted on his right to appreciate the fair sex away from home. He had a turgid, sentimental wife, always weeping and cramming her ...

— The Secret of the Night • Gaston Leroux

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