bombastic

adjective

bom·bas·tic bäm-ˈba-stik

: marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous, overblown

bombastically

bäm-ˈba-sti-k(ə-)lē

adverb

Examples of bombastic in a Sentence

a bombastic speech intended to impress the voters in her congressional district

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The trial could also provide courtroom fireworks between two bombastic attorneys. —

James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025 Biden, the nation’s oldest commander-in-chief, strode stiffly into the ceremony flanked by Harris after both failed to deliver on Democratic hopes to turn the page on the era of Trump’s bombastic populism. —

Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 20 Jan. 2025 The bombastic opening and closing credit sequences seem designed to bracket a movie whose outsized ride is wilder than this stubbornly modest enterprise ever manages. —

Dennis Harvey, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025 Hindenberg’s exit is hardly the end of activist short-selling but may well be the end of its bombastic era that made its practitioners the enemy of Corporate America. —

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