overblown Meaning, Definition & Usage
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adjective satellite puffed up with vanity
pompous; portentous; grandiloquent; pontifical.
- a grandiloquent and boastful manner
- overblown oratory
- a pompous speech
- pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
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adjective satellite past the stage of full bloom
- overblown roses
