What is a person called who uses:
- Complicated vocabulary when a simple answer would be sufficient?
- Uses complex vocabulary to make others think they are highly educated
- Is unnecessarily verbose
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Are you after a single word or a phrase (or either)? – KillingTime Apr 02 '20 at 15:54
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Related: https://english.stackexchange.com/q/484248/191178 – Laurel Apr 02 '20 at 16:01
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Logocompensating. – TaliesinMerlin Jan 08 '21 at 14:39
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You could describe the person as grandiloquent:
(of a person, their language or writing) given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive amount of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid
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