Adjective: blandiloquent
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more blandiloquent |
| Superlative | most blandiloquent |
Sample Sentences
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Graunt to me no learning, Muses, thou Pagan Apollo,
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Cynthia, with Charites, thou blandiloquent mery Pytho, [1599, anonymous author, “The Epistel to the Queenes most excellent Majesty”, in The First Booke of the Preservation of King Henry the vij., London:]
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Saulsbury, who was very drunk—or, to use the blandiloquent expression of the reporters—who is “in the habit of visiting the refectory very frequently,” gave utterance […] to the following disloyal sentiment: [1863 February, Vanity Fair, volume 7, number 159, page 29:]
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For Ralegh at his most blandiloquent the Queen, rather than any mere beloved, is the woman set apart, the inaccessible ideal, the paragon untouched by human mortality, and the mistress who commands love and service. [2000, Andrew Sanders, chapter 3, in The Short Oxford History of English Literature, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, page 126:]
Adjectives inflected like blandiloquent
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin blandus (“flattering”) + loquēns (“speaking”). See: Latin Adjectives '
blandus'.