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Overblown

adjective

Puffed up with vanity. Synonyms: grandiloquent, pompous, pontifical, portentous. "Overblown oratory" , "A pompous speech" , "Pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"

Past the stage of full bloom.

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"Overblown" Quotes from Famous Books

... I see, With heroes, cities, legends of her own; With a new race of men, and overblown By winds from sea to sea, Decked with ...

— The Poems of Emma Lazarus - Vol. I (of II.), Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic • Emma Lazarus

... whom, in his delirium, he alternately cursed and commended with horrid imprecations and lavish applause. His faithful valet, having waited two whole hours, in hopes of seeing this gust of passion overblown, and perceiving that the paroxysm seemed rather to increase, very prudently sent for a physician of his master's acquaintance, who, having considered the circumstances and symptoms of the disorder, directed that he should be plentifully blooded, without loss of time, and prescribed a draught to compose ...

— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett

... hardly overblown, when Bothwell received the commission of lieutenant upon the borders; but, as void of parts as of principle, he could not even recover to the queen's allegiance his own domains in Liddesdale.—Keith, App. 165. The queen herself advanced to the borders, to remedy this ...

— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott

Words linked to "Overblown" : pretentious, portentous, mature, grandiloquent, pontifical