flatulent
adjective
flat·u·lent
ˈfla-chə-lənt 
1
a
: likely to cause gas
b
: marked by or affected with gas generated in the intestine or stomach
2
: pompously or portentously overblown
flatulently
adverb
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on election night TV's self-important pundits let loose a fusillade of flatulent pontifications
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Gary Oldman plays the disgusting but brilliant Jackson Lamb, Slough House’s flatulent patriarch.
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Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
An aggressively flatulent vision of undarned socks, rumpled shirts and unspeakably greasy trench coat, Lamb is invariably surrounded by whiskey bottles and the moldering remnants of Chinese takeout.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024
Slow Horses, the wry and flatulent anti-Bond espionage series streaming on Apple TV+, has been exactly the show its relatively cult following has come to love from the day the cast and crew began filming the first episode, says showrunner Will Smith.
—Trey Williams, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2024
Climate change is causing various ant species of Colorado’s Gregory Canyon to alter their traditional ranges, the shells of East Coast mussels to grow more porous, herring to arrive earlier in the Wadden Sea, and Australian scientists to urge the breeding of less flatulent cows.
—John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
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Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
An aggressively flatulent vision of undarned socks, rumpled shirts and unspeakably greasy trench coat, Lamb is invariably surrounded by whiskey bottles and the moldering remnants of Chinese takeout.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024
Slow Horses, the wry and flatulent anti-Bond espionage series streaming on Apple TV+, has been exactly the show its relatively cult following has come to love from the day the cast and crew began filming the first episode, says showrunner Will Smith.
—Trey Williams, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2024
Climate change is causing various ant species of Colorado’s Gregory Canyon to alter their traditional ranges, the shells of East Coast mussels to grow more porous, herring to arrive earlier in the Wadden Sea, and Australian scientists to urge the breeding of less flatulent cows.
—John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
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“Flatulent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flatulent. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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flatulent
adjective
flat·u·lent
-lənt
1
: marked by or affected with gases generated in the intestine or stomach
2
: likely to cause digestive flatulence
flatulently
adverb
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