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I suspect he chose the Dred Scott comparison precisely because of its overblown, grandiose nature.

Months after his arrest, he was online acting out a grandiose identity.

Talking about the watch as a new kind of communication might seem grandiose, but it could actually be true.

It did not feature outsized personalities or grandiose schemes.

Songs about grandiose generalities are well and good; that's what a lot of pop music consists of.

Was it for some grandiose, impossible chimera, that he had taken men from quiet useful lives and the simple round of kindliness?

Within sixty seconds he sat in state, wearing a grandiose yellow dressing-gown.

She really had the heroical aspect in a grandiose-grotesque, fitted to some lines of Ariosto.

The llano had appeared to them in its grandiose majesty, and a cry of delight had burst from breasts so long oppressed by fear.

It has been called fairylike, a caprice of grandiose ideas, and enchanted, and these words describe it well enough.

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On this page you'll find 86 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to grandiose, such as: ambitious, bombastic, flamboyant, grand, imposing, and lofty.

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

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