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turgid

 (adj): ostentatiously lofty in style
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about 1 year ago brtom said:

"But as before the lightning the serried stormclouds, heavy with preponderant excess of moisture, in swollen masses turgidly distended ..."
Joyce, Ulysses, 14

about 1 year ago MsChief said: lurid

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