Sentences with bombastic
bom·bas·tic
B b - He was vain and bombastic.
- Bombastic refers to speech or writing that is pompous and inflated and suggests extravagant verbal padding and little substance; , grandiloquent suggests an overreaching eloquence and implies the use of grandiose, high-flown language and an oratorical tone; , flowery language is full of figurative and ornate expressions and high-sounding words; , euphuistic is applied to an extremely artificial style of writing in which there is a straining for effect at the expense of thought; , turgid implies such inflation of style as to obscure meaning