Adjective : turgid language. From Dictionary.com.
It was also a relief from the turgidness of Welsh Politics. From Wordnik.com. [Who cares?] Reference
'For my own part,' he at once replied, 'I look upon Aeschylus as the first of poets, for his verses roll superbly; 'tis nothing but incoherence, bombast and turgidness.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
There is then in the structure of his words something tragic and something comic, something blustering and something low, an obscurity, a vulgarness, a turgidness, and a strutting, with a nauseous prattling and fooling. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Mieville gropes for a prose style in the opening hundred pages or so, meaning that the opening part of the book is delivered in short, staccato bursts, one moment enjoyable, the next annoyingly obtuse to the point of turgidness. From Wordnik.com. [Kraken by China Mieville] Reference
This is partly because we still think of Tony Blair as the prime minister (and he is often on American television rather pretending he is still prime minister), and yet, confusingly, he isn't running, and partly because his stand-in, Gordon Brown, who is actually the prime minister, is a figure of almost incomprehensible dourness and turgidness. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Wolff: We Don't Care About the British Election--but Some Pointers Anyway] Reference
He degenerates occasionally into mere turgidness and verbosity, as in the following lines. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets]
All his compositions were a mixture of truth and turgidness, of lucid strength and faltering stupidity. From Wordnik.com. [Jean-Christophe, Volume I] Reference
He has not been tempted to leave the true path and court singularity, whether in the shape of Browning's verbal puzzles or of Swinburne's luscious and alliterative turgidness. From Wordnik.com. [Platform Monologues] Reference
For every ounce of glorious idea, astonishing shot, groundbreaking visual technique, and pure pop explosion (or explosion of pure pop), there's that deadly leaden turgidness that gives the whole affair the air of unedited, the unconsidered, or the just plain clumsy. From Wordnik.com. [mattfraction.com] Reference
"My poems have been rightly charged with a profusion of double-epithets, and a general turgidness. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
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