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Turgid meaning
Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force. | Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen. | Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.
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Example sentences (13)
For the APL, the league’s administrators, watching these green shoots emerge is a godsend; after a turgid past few years, anything less would have been disastrous.
France’s Les Bleues were 2-1 winners over the Super Falcons of Nigeria in a turgid international friendly game played under frosty and misty weather in Angers on Saturday night.
Look at last year’s Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, a turgid and widely disliked blockbuster that many heralded as a sign of the end for Marvel Studios’ box office dominance.
The bad news is they are still a long way behind the rest of the league (apart from an even more turgid Brisbane Roar) side.
That was a turgid performance.
They can make Cadet Bone Spurs puff up to his full turgid three inches and strut around pretending to be tough.
Australia progressed to the Japan Rugby World Cup quarter-finals in turgid fashion, overcoming minnows Georgia in Pool D at Shizuoka Stadium 27-8.
But the first half proved to be a turgid affair with few chances created by either outfit.
The band released three great rock albums in The Turgid Miasma of Existence, respectively their darkest, most acclaimed and most popular recordings.
Frankly, that will do nicely after the bleak, turgid misery of the last two World Cups.
I think we’ve found Turgid Love Muscle’s separated-at-birth twin.
Your mind is already turgid and so you write them down.
Although it was often turgid, rambling, and inaccessible to most readers, it ran for 25 issues and was republished in book form a number of times.