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An affable person is pleasant, friendly, and easy to talk to.
When a person is speaking or writing in a bombastic fashion, they are very self-centered, extremely showy, and excessively proud.
If someone is complaisant, they are willing to please others and do what they want without complaining.
A congenial person, place, or environment is pleasant, friendly, and enjoyable.
A man who is debonair is sophisticated, charming, friendly, and confident.
If you describe someone, usually a young woman, as demure, you mean that she is quiet, shy, and always behaves modestly.
An animal or person that is docile is not aggressive; rather, they are well-behaved, quiet, and easy to control.
When you enjoin someone to do something, you order or bid them to do it with authority.
An exorbitant price or fee is much higher than what it should be or what is considered reasonable.
If someone or something is flamboyant, the former is trying to show off in a way that deliberately attracts attention, and the latter is brightly colored and highly decorated.
A florid complexion is too red or flushed.
Praise, an apology, or gratitude is fulsome if it is so exaggerated and elaborate that it does not seem sincere.
Grandiloquent speech is highly formal, exaggerated, and often seems both silly and hollow because it is expressly used to appear impressive and important.
A harangue is a long, scolding speech.
Hyperbole is a way of emphasizing something that makes it sound much more impressive or much worse than it actually is.
An injunction is a court order that prevents someone from doing something.
If something is inordinate, it is much larger in amount or degree than is normally expected.
To opine is to state your opinion on something.
If you describe an action as ostentatious, you think it is an extreme and exaggerated way of impressing people.
Someone is overweening when they are not modest; rather, they think way too much of themselves and let everyone know about it.
To be politic in a decision is to be socially wise and diplomatic.
Ponderous writing or speech is boring, highly serious, and seems very long and wordy; it definitely lacks both grace and style.
To rant is to go on an angry verbal attack.
To remonstrate with someone is to tell that person that you strongly disapprove of something they have said or done.
People who are reticent are unwilling to share information, especially about themselves, their thoughts, or their feelings.
Someone’s sardonic smile, expression, or comment shows a lack of respect for what someone else has said or done; this occurs because the former thinks they are too important to consider or discuss such a supposedly trivial matter of the latter.
A tirade is a prolonged, verbal outburst that severely criticizes someone or something.
Turgid writing or speech is excessively complicated, being filled with too many needlessly difficult words; consequently, such verbiage is boring and difficult to understand.
Something that is unadorned is not made more attractive with ornament or decoration.
Someone who is unassuming is not boastful or arrogant; rather, they are modest or humble.
Verb
pontificate
pon-TIF-i-kayt
Context
Marian has turned some of her friends away because she pontificates or preaches too much about health! Just yesterday her friend Alice was eating a strawberry when Marian got right in her face and started pontificating and lecturing her on the ill effects of pesticides. This pontificating made Alice uncomfortable, so she decided to just go home rather than listen to Marian’s heavy sermon. Marian seems to think she’s right all the time, so she pontificates and always seems to think her opinion is the only one that matters.
Cate's Ponytail TiffCate often got in tiffs, or fights with her mother, who always pontificated about why it was best for Cate to always wear her hair in a ponytail: "It won't get in your way, Cate!" she would always pontificate.
Examples
Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger earned the right to pontificate on pretty much anything he wants after he successfully landed US Airways Flight 1549 in Hudson River. OK, we kid, but when Sullenberger talks about air safety, we listen.
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NPR
State premiers wheel and deal in the Bundesrat, the upper chamber of the federal parliament, to stymie government legislation they do not fancy or to pontificate on foreign policy, which is not supposed to be their affair.
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The Economist
A pontifex, or “high priest,” was the “maker of a bridge” between his “flock” and the divine. When a high priest pontificates, he “makes” the rules which people will listen and obey unquestionably.