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turgid (en)

(adjective) being in a state of distension; swollen, tumid (opposite of flaccid) / (adjective) exhibiting turgor / (adjective) excessively embellished in style or language; bombastic, pompous

Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing
by Bryan A. Garner, David Foster Wallace, L.W. Montgomery

Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing
by Bryan A. Garner, David Foster Wallace, L.W. Montgomery

Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing
by Bryan A. Garner, David Foster Wallace, L.W. Montgomery


characterized by crummy, turgid, verbose, abstruse, abstract, solecism-ridden prose

—p.47 The interview (23) by David Foster Wallace
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