pompousness, bombast, politesse, haughtiness, pomposity, prolixity, pedantry, inarticulateness, archness, pretentiousness, facetiousness, affectations, flummery, didacticism, melodramatics, pretension, wryness, clownishness, imperiousness, poeticism, bathos, circumlocutions, persiflage, puerility, insipidity, sumptuousness, loquacity, officiousness, peevishness, staginess, poesy, inconsequentiality, profundity, priggishness, nabokovian, triteness, wordiness, sentimentalism, garrulousness, vainglory, whimsicality, hyperboles, ghastliness, ponderousness, histrionics, journalese, grandeur, gaucherie, impassivity, acerbity, apercus, suavity, superciliousness, grotesquery, speechifying, volubility, dilettantism, crudities, corniness, fustiness, hauteur, impishness, archaisms, grandiosity, shavian, taciturnity, arioso, glibness, languor, whimsy, pithiness, verbosity, pieties, panegyrics, sanctimoniousness, rotundity, egotism, foppery, jollity, orotund, grand guignol, insubstantiality, tawdriness, dandyism, boastfulness, bedazzlement, fatuity, ingenuousness, lugubriousness, terseness, buncombe, theatricality, smarm, cornpone, braggadocio, daftness, pathos, ruefulness, disingenuity, ribaldry, subtlety, sublimity, flamboyance, hyperbole, bravado, bravura, exaggeration, posturing, bluster, declamation, declamations, graciousness, politeness, pomp, rant, sentimentality, verbiage, affectation

blah, claptrap, flourish, fustian

expressive style, style

magniloquence, rhetoric