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as in chatterer
a person who talks constantly
a politician who is the stereotypical backslapping blowhard
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as in braggart
someone who boasts
a blowhard who always had to act like she was better than anyone else
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Recent Examples of blowhard
Under the Tories’ watch, the prime minister’s residence at 10 Downing Street in London was occupied by a dyspeptic culture warrior (Theresa May), who was succeeded by a fustian blowhard (Boris Johnson), who begot an economic ignoramus (Liz Truss).
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Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
Americans are facing a choice between an 81-year-old sage with a literal senatorial vein and forgetful streak or a 78-year-old blowhard dragging behind him felony convictions and looming indictments.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 28 June 2024
Don’t let demagogues and blowhards and ignoramuses tell you otherwise.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 June 2024
As too many of today’s blowhards fail to understand, the best late-night hosts don’t make the show all about themselves.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 10 May 2024
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Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
Americans are facing a choice between an 81-year-old sage with a literal senatorial vein and forgetful streak or a 78-year-old blowhard dragging behind him felony convictions and looming indictments.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 28 June 2024
Don’t let demagogues and blowhards and ignoramuses tell you otherwise.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 June 2024
As too many of today’s blowhards fail to understand, the best late-night hosts don’t make the show all about themselves.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 10 May 2024
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He’s swept away in a sea of raves MILAN — Giorgio Armani is not a very good braggart.Tonya Blazio-Licorish, WWD, 17 Oct. 2024
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Researchers also studied real-life workplace braggarts and found their colleagues often perceived them negatively.Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 28 May 2024
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Just take Bailey’s experience with the common UK superstition of saluting magpies for good luck.Erica Sloan, SELF, 2 Oct. 2024
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Her magpie collecting led her to her early jewelry, with friends asking her for pieces.Thomas Waller, WWD, 16 Sep. 2024
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In the rank and file of men showering the cocks and balls took on the air almost of an independent species, exhibited in instructive contrasts.Charles McGrath, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024
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The story is told from Dah’s perspective, as Jocelyn—who displays a quasi-mystical rapport with fighting cocks—suffers an emotional breakdown, putting their business and their lives in danger.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 26 July 2024
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When a self-important young windbag named Bartow (played to perfection by Jackson Kelly) rather reasonably asks Hank to say something — anything — the latter launches into a scathing but accurate sendup of Bartow’s writing and accuses him (and the student population, and the college) of mediocrity.Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
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The themes that move them — annoying roommates, windbag friends, comical misunderstandings, internet word soup — feel half-classic and half-distinctly contemporary, like if one of those fake AI Seinfeld script-bot Twitter accounts was actually funny.Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2021
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Such a windup suggested that a rerun of their infamous 2020 debate was coming, with Trump casting himself in the role, once again, of rogue gasbag.Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
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Trump, now with the gasbag winds from TV commentary at his back, may indeed win the nomination in 2024.Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 June 2023
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The more recent efforts to get rid of blowers have focused on the combustion engines used in many models.Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2024
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Over 700 people seem to agree about the utility of a good blower, as that's how many have pledged to buy the Zera Max fan on Kickstarter.Michael Franco, New Atlas, 13 Sep. 2024
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“Blowhard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blowhard. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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