grandiose

/GRAN-dee-ohss/adjective

impressive in an exaggerated or pompous way

The grandiose lobby hid a company two payrolls from ruin.
Synonyms
pompous, ostentatious, overblown
Antonyms
modest, unpretentious
Memory hook
grand + iose: grandeur inflated past the budget.

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