Synonyms for rhetoric
ˈrɛt ər ɪkrhetoric

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1. rhetoricnoun

   using language effectively to please or persuade

   Synonyms:
   empty words, empty talk, hot air, ornateness, grandiosity, grandiloquence, magniloquence, palaver

2. grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoricnoun

   high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation

   "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"

   Synonyms:
   elaborateness, empty talk, hot air, ornateness, empty words, grandiosity, grandiloquence, magniloquence, palaver

3. palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk, rhetoricnoun

   loud and confused and empty talk

   "mere rhetoric"

   Synonyms:
   empty talk, blandishment, cajolery, hot air, ornateness, empty words, grandiosity, grandiloquence, magniloquence, palaver

4. rhetoricnoun

   study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)

   Synonyms:
   empty words, empty talk, hot air, ornateness, grandiosity, grandiloquence, magniloquence, palaver

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1. rhetoricnoun

   Synonyms:
   art of composition

2. rhetoricnoun

   Synonyms:
   oratory, elocution, eloquence, science of oratory

3. rhetoricnoun

   Synonyms:
   declamation, artificial eloquence

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1. List of paraphrases for "rhetoric":

   rhetorical, speech, discourse, oratory

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1. Heather Conley:

   They are using the language of climate so much more in their official rhetoric, their strategic documents, but the problem is their implementation is going in the opposite direction, they're doubling down on fossil fuel production over the next decade.

2. Zhou Lin:

   You need real money to support the market, not just rhetoric.

3. John Sandweg:

   It may be premature to point to the rhetoric as the cause of the numbers dropping.

4. Daniel Wu:

   We're being smashed in as a one-two punch. There's low-level petty crime that's happening to our community. We're being targeted as easy targets, but at a bigger scale, racist rhetoric from the pandemic has targeted us as being' the reason for coronavirus,' and so Asians across the board have been targeted by racial slurs, being attacked, being pushed around, being spat on.

5. Michael Gianaris:

   There's rhetoric and there's policy-making. And the mayor has no role in policy-making at state level, so he can make his case and we will show him the respect he deserves to be heard. But those are state decisions, ultimately.