bloviation

noun

Definition of bloviationnext
as in verbosity

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloviation
  1. verbosity
  2. prattle
  3. pomposity
  4. drivel
  5. chatter
  6. rhetoric
  7. jabber
  8. gibberish
Noun
  • When that’s chucked in a blender with his own penchant for spiky-savvy verbosity, the results fizz and pop.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
  • But many French are deeply sick of hearing his volcanic verbosity.
    Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
Definition of verbosity
Noun
  • She was getting winded on our walk, and her prattle was broken up by heavy breaths.
    Joshua Cohen, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The larcenous prattle is, in this sense, a typically Wiig-ian set piece: sunny, strained and flailing for dignity.
    Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
Definition of prattle
Noun
  • His boisterous persona was more comical than confrontational, a hot-air balloon of strutting pomposity punctured by his family.
    Jim McKairnes, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Lacking the pop cultural connection of Vox Lux, The Brutalist’s pomposity becomes unrelatable, if not repugnant.
    Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of pomposity
Noun
  • Supposedly inspired by an improv exercise, the scene manages to say more about man’s relationship to power than any of the drivel that spills out of Cesar Catalina’s Emersonian mind.
    Vulture Staff, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
  • With pay cable and streaming gaining a bigger and bigger foothold, Duffy kept looking for shows that deserved a wider audience while steering readers away from formulaic drivel.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of drivel
Noun
  • Natural light plus background chatter plus the smell of coffee equals better stories for you.
    Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Close losses have been the bane of their season so far, but games like Wednesday’s can help with stacking wins and quelling trade chatter, even if for just another day.
    James Jackson, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of chatter
Noun
  • However, much of the rhetoric online around looters seems steeped in racist sentiment.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2025
  • In this upcoming moment of truth for Illinois, the speaker has the opportunity to give power to that rhetoric, which many on the GOP side don’t believe for a minute.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of rhetoric
Noun
  • Worse, such jabber crowds out essential coverage of genuine threats to democracy and the visions of the two parties.
    Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
  • Jacobs-Jenkins renders him as a wry, friendly figure who occasionally takes over the bodies of the other characters to explain what is happening beneath their jabber.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 5 June 2023
Definition of jabber
Noun
  • Given this strange combination—Iron Guard nostalgia and Russian trolls plus the sort of wellness gibberish more commonly associated with Gwyneth Paltrow—who exactly are the Georgescus?
    Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Bernie spoke gibberish to investors when talking about his strategies.
    Richard Behar, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of gibberish
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