The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby, turgid journalism
Could you please tell me the literal and figurative meaning of "turgid" in this extract from the chapter VI of The Great Gatsby?
The none too savory ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common knowledge to the turgid journalism of 1902.
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