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ostentatiously lofty in style

Turgid can also mean "swollen".

During the night, the mephitic vapors had accumulated low to the ground, and now the dim morning light gilded the turgid clouds, turning them opaque.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest

Far down in the shadows she discerned the river, yellow, turgid, palely gleaming.
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
I saw a fathomless, a bottomless abyss, which yawned beneath the turgid waves.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
He says, The male organ of copulation becomes turgid and is inserted into the receptive female orifice.
Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes
In his red gown he was another man, no longer genial or goodnatured; his mouth spewed out long, turgid phrases like an endless stream of snakes.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
Was this the only true history of the times, a mood blared by trumpets, trombones, saxophones and drums, a song with turgid, inadequate words?
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
The wolves had gone into the turgid brown water alone.
George R.R. Martin -- A Clash of Kings
And the prose in the memoranda of other officers was always turgid, stilted, or ambiguous.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
Shortening her wingspan, she tilted downward, the sensation of weight leaving her, and gyrated in slow spirals as she dove toward the turgid river.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
Like a kind of summer molasses, it poured turgidly forth upon the cinnamon-dusty road.
Ray Bradbury -- The Martian Chronicles
Gabriel was already among the turgid, prostrate forms.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
Kassad felt the bloodlust build in him with turgid strength.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
She watches Cash stooping at the plank, the turgid savage gleam of the lantern slicking on the raincoat AS he moves.
William Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying
Some states use a turgid style which can get you lost with the greatest ease.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
The eerie phone conversation had left him feeling turgid .... distended somehow.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
Just before sinking within the turgid sea, its central fires suddenly went out, as if hurriedly extinguished by some unaccountable power.
Edgar Allan Poe -- MS. Found in a Bottle
They were like turgid animals who did things mechanically.
Rudolfo Anaya -- Bless Me, Ultima
The dining-room area is lit with a turgid smoky red glow.
Tennessee Williams -- The Glass Menagerie
The black, turgid, convulsed face grew white and ghastly, with beads of clammy sweat and lines of torture.
Zane Grey -- The Border Legion
"I can understand why you'd want to quit this madhouse—but to be the head of Sweden's most turgid old-boy newspaper?
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

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