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  • 91sensational — Synonyms and related words: Barnumesque, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, acid, affected, amazing, arresting, astonishing, astounding, bedizened, beguiling, bewildering, big sounding, biting, blatant, brazen, brazenfaced, breathtaking, cloak and dagger,… …

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  • 92sententious — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, admonitory, advisory, affected, allegorical, aphoristic, aposiopestic, associational, axiomatic, bedizened, big sounding, brief, brusque, cautionary, clipped,… …

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  • 93showy — Synonyms and related words: Byzantine, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, arabesque, baroque, bedizened, big sounding, brave, bravura, braw, chichi, conspicuous, convoluted, daring, dashing, declamatory, dressy, elaborate, elevated, euphuistic,… …

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  • 94sonorous — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, achingly sweet, affected, agreeable, agreeable sounding, appealing, ariose, arioso, aureate, bedizened, big sounding, bombastic, booming, canorous, cantabile, catchy, clangorous, clattery,… …

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  • 95stilted — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Latinate, affected, artificial, aureate, awkward, bedizened, big sounding, bloated, bombastic, buckram, cardboard, clumsy, conventional, convoluted, cramped, cumbrous, declamatory, decorous,… …

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  • 96studied — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, advised, affected, aforethought, aimed, aimed at, artificial, calculated, conscious, considered, contemplated, contrived, deliberate, deliberated, designed, elaborate, elaborated,… …

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  • 97tall — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, a bit thick, a bit thin, a mile long, absurd, affected, altitudinous, bedizened, beyond belief, big, big sounding, bombastic, bumper, colossal, considerable, convoluted, declamatory, doubtable …

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  • 98tortuous — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambagious, ambiguous, anamorphous, anfractuous, askew, asymmetric, bedizened, bent, big sounding, billowing, billowy, bowed, circuitous, circumlocutory, cockeyed, complicated,… …

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  • 99unnatural — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, aberrant, abnormal, affected, amorphous, anomalistic, anomalous, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bent, bestial, bizarre, bogus, brummagem, callous, calloused, cold, cold… …

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  • 100busy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. occupied, engaged, engrossed; employed; meddlesome. See activity, business. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Engaged] Syn. occupied, diligent, working, employed, involved, tied up, in conference, in a… …

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