The Only Use of
turgid
in
The Great Gatsby
- The none too savory ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common knowledge to the turgid sub-journalism of 1902.†
p. 99..9
Definition:
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(turgid as in: a turgid speech) ostentatiously lofty in style