Making an argument purposely difficult to understand in an attempt to intimidate your audience into accepting it, or accepting an argument without evidence or being intimidated to question the authority or a priori assumptions of the one making the argument.
Examples:
- Professor Xavier says that the egg certainly came before the chicken. He won the Nobel prize last year for his work in astronomy, and the MMA world championship—so I don’t dare question his claim.
Synonyms: proof by verbosity, fallacy of intimidation