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euphuistic

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They are known at a later period to have acted some of Lily's Euphuistic plays, and one of Middleton's.

The book has given a word to the language; that affected word-placing style is known as euphuistic.

Here the pompous antithesis is evidently meant to caricature the peculiar Euphuistic sentence of court parlance.

Arbasto cannot cease gazing at her; he addresses to himself euphuistic speeches several pages long, but they do him no good.

They were careful by choosing appropriate titles for their novels to publicly connect themselves with the euphuistic cycle.

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On this page you'll find 304 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to euphuistic, such as: grandiose, histrionic, histrionical, rhapsodic, aureate, and balderdash.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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