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upcast collapse: air passage consisting of a ventilation shaft through which air leaves a mine

starched collapse

upraised collapse: held up in the air; "stood with arms upraised"; "her upraised flag"

self-conscious collapse: excessively and uncomfortably conscious of your appearance or behavior; "self-conscious teenagers"; "wondered if she could ever be untidy without feeling self-conscious about it"; aware of yourself as an individual or of your own being and actions and thoughts; "self-conscious awareness"; "self-conscious about their roles as guardians of the social values"- D.M.Potter

mincing collapse

cumbrous collapse

pontifical collapse: the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop)

flatulent collapse: generating excessive gas in the alimentary canal

sesquipedalian collapse: a very long word (a foot and a half long); given to the overuse of long words; "sesquipedalian orators"; "this sesquipedalian way of saying one has no money"

tumid collapse: of sexual organs; stiff and rigid

uplifted collapse: exalted emotionally especially with pride

mannered collapse: having unnatural mannerisms; "brief, mannered and unlifelike idiom"

orotund collapse: (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels"

Johnsonian collapse

prim collapse: dress primly; contract one's lips; "She primmed her lips after every bite of food"; assume a prim appearance; "They mince and prim"

bombastic collapse: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

declamatory collapse

high sounding collapse

turgid collapse

high flying collapse

bedizened collapse

courtly collapse: refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman"

unwieldy collapse: difficult to work or manipulate; "unwieldy rules and regulations"; difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape; "we set about towing the unwieldy structure into the shelter"; "almost dropped the unwieldy parcel"

overelaborate collapse

showy collapse: displaying brilliance and virtuosity; marked by ostentation but often tasteless; "a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad"

grandiloquent collapse: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek; lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying"

ostentatious collapse: intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"; of a display that is tawdry or vulgar

rhetorical collapse: concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking; "a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply"; of or relating to rhetoric; "accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"- W.A.White; "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"- Lewis Mumford

garish collapse

overdone collapse: cooked too long but still edible

highfalutin collapse

gassy collapse: resembling gas

self-important collapse

forced collapse: made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency; "a forced landing"; forced or compelled; "promised to abolish forced labor"; produced by or subjected to forcing; "forced-air heating"; "furnaces of the forced-convection type"; "forced convection in plasma generators"

grandiose collapse: impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval; affectedly genteel

labored collapse: lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating"

flamboyant collapse: richly and brilliantly colorful

flashy collapse: (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display

wooden collapse: lacking ease or grace; "the actor's performance was wooden"; "a wooden smile"; made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood; "a wooden box"; "an ancient cart with wooden wheels"

pretentious collapse: making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"

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