euphuism
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"We're losing the war," he insists, adding with a flourish of Romneyesque euphuism: "The Viet Nam tail is wagging our global dog."
From Time Magazine Archive
Above all, none of the grandiosity and architectural euphuism of the American "signature" museum.
From Time Magazine Archive
The chief characteristics of genuine euphuism were extreme artificiality and numerous allusions to natural history embellished by imagination.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various
Equally unsatisfactory is the theory that euphuism was of purely Spanish origin.
From John Lyly by John Dover Wilson
There were, chiefly in one portion of the country, about 750,000 "persons held to service or labor,"—the euphuism for negro slaves which, evolved from some tender and sentimental conscience, came into use at this period.
From James Madison by Sydney Howard Gay
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