rhetorical

adjectives

of or relating to rhetoric

"accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"- W.A.White; "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"- Lewis Mumford

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given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought

"mere rhetorical frippery"

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ostentatiously lofty in style

"a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

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marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details

"a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton

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excessively elaborate or showily expressed

"a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"

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of, relating to, or used in public debate or argument

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lofty in style

"he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying"

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characteristic of an orator or oratory

"oratorical prose"; "harangued his men in an oratorical way"- Robert Graves

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characteristic of or befitting poetry

"poetic diction"

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of or relating to style (especially in the use of language)

"stylistic devices"