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"overblown"
Keywords:
grandiloquent
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gobbledygook
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pontifical
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hooey
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pompous
puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
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Keywords:
bombastic
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pretentious
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rhetoric
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bloated
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excessive
Bombastic, pretentious, or excessive; as, overblown rhetoric.
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Bloated. Excessively fat and rich.
stereophile.com
Keywords:
overoxidized
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bessemer
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blown
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inclined
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wild
A term applied to Bessemer steel which has been blown too long and is overoxidized and hence inclined to be wild.
sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu
Keywords:
ascribed
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justified
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discovery
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warranted
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importance
Having been given more publicity than warranted; having had ascribed more importance than was justified; as, an overblown medical discovery.
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Keywords:
bloom
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roses
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stage
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full
past the stage of full bloom; "overblown roses"
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