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high-sounding
adjective as in sonorous
adjective as in loud
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adjective as in pretentious
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adjective as in stilted
adjective as in big
adjective as in high-sounding
adjective as in roaring
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Example Sentences
He gave himself a high-sounding title: Photo Coordinator for the Western Front.
It certainly seems to have the high-sounding tome of a presidential pronouncement.
Click Image To View Our Gallery of Memorable U.N. Moments For all the high-sounding rhetoric, this is an awful week.
Long suffixes abound, and the style becomes, in consequence, frequently high-sounding and exaggerated.
My driver bestowed upon this tangled brushwood the high-sounding name of jungle.
My Tour in France has at least taught me one lesson—never to be deceived by high-sounding names and pompous designations.
Mr. George enunciated these high-sounding words in a pompous and theatrical manner, which made Rollo laugh very heartily.
There were also several officials with high-sounding titles who were going out to their stations in German East Africa.
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On this page you'll find 265 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to high sounding, such as: big, boisterous, deafening, emphatic, heavy, and intense.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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