turgidity

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Noun
  • Shelby Garza is fiery but relatable as The Nina, and her character’s humility balances that of the arrogant and misogynistic D. Vicious, who Jacob Lopez plays with both sleazy pomposity and vulnerability.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Wagner’s humor deflates pomposity, and gives you permission to trust your own palate first.
    Devin Parr, Forbes.com, 31 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Director Scott Ellis understands all this, and thus the admirably specific physical business and slurred verbosity in his gently outré revival really makes for quite the amusing diversion.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Director Scott Ellis understands all this and thus the admirably specific physical business and slurred verbosity in his gently outré revival really makes for quite the amusing diversion.
    Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Framed as a platform for addressing inequality, climate change and the rise of right-wing political movements, yet the rhetoric coming from it has raised questions in Washington and across the region about whether a more coordinated political counterweight to the United States is taking shape.
    Armando Regil Velasco, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
  • People have been called pedants since the early modern period—pedante is a fifteenth-century Italian coinage for a professional teacher of Latin literature and rhetoric—but have been acting pedantically for millennia.
    Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Embedded in its arpeggiated pads, chimes, and windswept atmospherics is the same chillmaxed peak-time rhapsody favored by peers like Nick León and Facta, whose ever-consistent imprint with K-Lone, Wisdom Teeth, released this track.
    Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Come for the endless pasta rhapsodies, stay for the reminiscences from the sets of classic movies like Julie & Julia and Big Night.
    Vogue, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The fire moved north from Oceanside Boulevard toward the El Corazon Senior Center, with wind and terrain helping fuel its spread.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
  • An icy wind blew through the buckled windows.
    Lizzie Johnson, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Others are former legacy news anchors, who have gained traction by slinging challenging oratory.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The Catholic Church’s work with young people in Italy largely relies on oratories, parish spaces where children and teenagers gather after school for sports and recreational activities.
    ABC News, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2026
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“Turgidity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/turgidity. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.

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