Orotund used in a sentence

Orotund in a sentence as an adjective

People often assume this means that if you lard your verbiage with orotund circumlocutions and vague implications you'll be hitting those high register top notes. But in fact social register doesn't map neatly to grammar/reading age/vocab.

He could have used orotund obfuscations and otiose circumlocutions far more than he did, but he chose not to. There's a difference between grammatical correctness, journalistic conciseness, and social register.