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1
language that is impressive-sounding but not meaningful or sincere
- the mayor's promise to fight drugs was just rhetoric, since there was no money in the city budget for a drug program
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the art or power of speaking or writing in a forceful and convincing way
- great leaders have often been masters of rhetoric, which they have used for both good and ill
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- articulacy
- [chiefly British],
- articulateness,
- eloquence,
- poetry
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“Rhetoric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rhetoric. Accessed 22 Jan. 2022.
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