Altiloquent

He remembered that the politeness seemed too elaborate, too florid, altiloquent to the extent of insincerity. ❋ Holman Day (1900)

Of sentimentality -- altiloquent, fabricated feeling and cajolery -- there is enough in Greek and Latin literature, doubtless as a reflection of life. ❋ Henry Theophilus Finck (1890)

His passion is fickle, his adoration little more than adulation, and the expressions of unselfish devotion here and there do not mean more than the altiloquent words of Achilles about Briseis or of Admetus about ❋ Henry Theophilus Finck (1890)

1. [The volume's] passages were, it seemed to Charles, gratuitously elaborate. Comprehending the [altiloquent] prose he would have likened to attempting to wade through honey 2. Jenna's first week at her trendy liberal arts college was enough to disabuse her of her previously-cherished hope that her general quirks and pretensions in life- particularly her proclivity for verbose, altiloquent language- would, in the eyes of her artsy, cliquey peers, outweigh the myriad defects and flaws in her character that had made her a [pariah] at prior schools ❋ Charlemagne1993 (2019)