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blandiloquent

blandiloquent adjective: speaking, or spoken, in a mild, flattering manner.

Adjective

blandiloquent (comparative more blandiloquent, superlative most blandiloquent)

  1. Speaking, or spoken, in a mild, flattering manner.
    • Graunt to me no learning, Muses, thou Pagan Apollo,
      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
    • 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

Forms of blandiloquent

comparativemore blandiloquent
superlativemost blandiloquent

Origin of blandiloquent

From Latin blandus (“flattering”) + loquēns (“speaking”).

Words formed from blandiloquent

Questions about blandiloquent

What does blandiloquent mean?
Blandiloquent means speaking, or spoken, in a mild, flattering manner.
What part of speech is blandiloquent?
Blandiloquent is an adjective.

Words near blandiloquent in the dictionary

  1. blandified
  2. blandifies
  3. blandify
  4. blandifying
  5. blandiloquence
  6. blandiloquent
  7. blandiloquently
  8. blandiloquous
  9. blandiment
  10. Blandin
  11. Blandinavian

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