| amatory | (adj) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance, Syn. amorous, romantic, Example: her amatory affairs; amorous glances; a romantic adventure; a romantic moonlight ride |
| bombastic | (adj) ostentatiously lofty in style, Syn. declamatory, turgid, large, orotund, tumid, Example: a man given to large talk; tumid political prose |
| calumniatory | (adj) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign, Syn. calumnious, denigrating, defamatory, denigratory, libellous, libelous, denigrative, slanderous |
| emphatic | (adj) sudden and strong, Syn. exclamatory, Example: an emphatic no |
| Acclamatory | a. Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Amatory | a. Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Declamatory | a. [ L. declamatorius: cf. F. déclamatoire. ] 1. Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Defamatory | a. Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Desquamatory | { } a. Of, pertaining to, or attended with, desquamation. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Desquamative |
| Desquamatory | n. (Surg.) An instrument formerly used in removing the laminæ of exfoliated bones. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Exclamatory | a. Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or speaker. South. -- Ex*clam"a*to*ti*ly adv. [1913 Webster] |
