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Synonyms for high-sounding

characterized by language that is elevated and sometimes pompous in style

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Synonyms for high-sounding

pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)

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The Kuwaiti group has a long history in raising funds, manipulating high-sounding slogans, an approach that has allowed it to collect large donations channelled into bankrolling the local and international offshoots of the Brotherhood, they added.
* Refuse to be enticed by empty philosophies and high-sounding powers of this world, choosing to follow Jesus instead (v.8).
What we're going to wind up with, I feel safe in predicting, are more high-sounding generalizations that plainly panderto the pollution machine that mucks us up to our ears (70,000 tons in one year alone) and renders the great St.
To make brave, high-sounding rallying cries is easy, but to sign up for independence when knowing all the pros and cons is vastly different.
MN - (e-mail address supplied) A mish-mash of half-baked ideas Dear Sir, Gulf Times The letter "Importance of brain education" (, November 19) is just a string many high-sounding words which absolutely do not convey anything.
8 ( ANI ): With Narendra Modi emphasizing that the Gujarat model of development was a success because of empowerment of women, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Brinda Karat on Monday alleged that the women of this country have seen the hatred-filled politics, which the former represents, and they can never ever give any credibility to just high-sounding statements.
How can there be trust in a bureaucrat or politician who says high-sounding words about what's good for Russia, but tries to expatriate his funds, his cash, overseas?
Despite high-sounding and moralistic assertions, the Pakistani delegate said, the fact was that nuclear weapons remained integral to strategic doctrines of military alliances and also provided extended deterrence to non-nuclear-weapon States that were members of military alliances.
found in requiring fledgling lawyers to mouth high-sounding words many never read and will lightly ignore.
That kind of advice, however, appears high-sounding in the ears of many young people in China.
The one-point agendum of the angry participants was the demand to implement the recommendations of the high-sounding 'Pay and Pensions Commission' to announce a 100 percent raise in salaries and pensions.
KATHMANDU, May 8 -- So much for the UCPN (Maoist)'s high-sounding slogans of 'civilian supremacy' and 'people power'.
Apparently he had been given that rather high-sounding name by his parents, perhaps hoping it would someday be appropriate."