Me; bombastic?

I’m often accused of using obscure words in my conversations or correspondence that listeners or readers do not understand. I must admit that I do use words that, occasionally, I need to check, and usually find that they do mean what I thought they meant.  A feature of using such words is that it is unlikely that the listener is going to check the meaning, and you can usually get away with it.

However, I have just discovered, using Google, that I made an ironic error the other day by misusing the word ‘turgid’ to describe a long, dull and overly complicated set of terms and conditions.  Although my own definition may not have been completely wrong, the term may, in fact, describe some of my more annoying communications – “inflated, overblown, or pompous; bombastic”

Note to self: never use words that you’re not entirely sure about. They may come back and bite you in the overblown bum.