adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was also due to a barbaric delight in high-sounding verbiage, and probably this was the most powerful reason for its use.
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Quigly, Willis and Frome - it would have formed a sufficiently high-sounding trio of names to grace a solicitors' firm.
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The elaborately staged conferences have acquired a reputation for issuing high-sounding communiques urging remedial economic or monetary action.