puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous
| ... is Similar to: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous |
is similar to:
- pretentious — making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
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