Usually means: Pompous, inflated, high-sounding language use.
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declamatory, large, turgid, rhetorical, tumid, orotund, bombastick, bombastiloquent, grandiloquent, bombast, more...

Opposite:
understated, humble, modest, unassuming

Types:
grandiose, overblown, pretentious, self-important, vain, more...

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over the top speech,   using big words,   uses big words,   language) grandiose,   using large words

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