Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a turgid manner; with swelling or empty pomp; pompously.
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- adverb In a
turgid manner.
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- adverb in a turgid manner
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Examples
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If you want to see what his military strategy really is, forget what's said at press conferences and in turgidly written Pentagon press releases.
Medea Benjamin: Obama's Pentagon Strategy: A Leaner, More Efficient Empire Medea Benjamin 2012
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Under such labels as "fairness and equality," this document amounts to a turgidly written manifesto in which the Obama administration seeks praise from the U.N. Human Rights Council for "progress" in dismantling the capitalist system.
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Under such labels as "fairness and equality," this document amounts to a turgidly written manifesto in which the Obama administration seeks praise from the U.N. Human Rights Council for "progress" in dismantling the capitalist system.
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Under such labels as "fairness and equality," this document amounts to a turgidly written manifesto in which the Obama administration seeks praise from the U.N. Human Rights Council for "progress" in dismantling the capitalist system.
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Yes, it's all good silly, operatically pretentious, proudly immoral and turgidly unreadable fun -- or is it?
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The men below him seem to be extremely excited, perhaps even turgidly so, as they point 24 inches of long, hard steel at his Globes of Manly Secretions.
Archive 2009-07-12 2009
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Named by the conquistadores after a city in Spain, Mérida is cosmopolitan, international and turgidly tropical, boasting intellectual interests as well as nightlife.
Mérida 2006
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Named by the conquistadores after a city in Spain, Mérida is cosmopolitan, international and turgidly tropical, boasting intellectual interests as well as nightlife.
Mérida 2006
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Named by the conquistadores after a city in Spain, Mérida is cosmopolitan, international and turgidly tropical, boasting intellectual interests as well as nightlife.
Mérida 2006
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Meanwhile, to anyone acquainted with the outré, turgidly cocksure, over-the-top personality type of the former Navy Seals, Special Ops-types, and other gung-ho para-militarists embodying the ranks of private militias wherever found, none of the extremes come as a surprise.
Blackwater in the Quagmire: Does USA's Most Powerful Private Militia Fuel Iraq's Insurgency? 2007
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