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Definition of "declamatory" [de•clam•a•to•ry]

  • Having the quality of a declamation. (adjective)
  • Pretentiously rhetorical; bombastic. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "declamatory" in a sentence
  • "With Lawes, then, what we may call the declamatory branch of the English school culminated."
  • "The folkloric Russian lyrics are loopy and peppered with nonlinear wordplay, often barked out in declamatory Russian."
  • "Boesch's methodology has often been described as expressionist, though in this instance he's less overtly declamatory than you might expect, singing the work as much off the lines as the text."