blusterous

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Adjective
  • Ball is the middle child of LaVar Ball, the former professional football player who made waves in the 2010s through the bombastic promotion of his sons’ basketball careers.
    Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Charlie Kirk: The bombastic podcaster and Turning Point USA founder played a role in Trump’s get-out-the-vote efforts, and he’s reportedly helped screen Trump administration job candidates for loyalty.
    Joe Walsh, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • This was my chance to not be an actor, not have that stink of being an actor, that egotistical, show-off, controlling, making choices, being clever part of being an actor.
    Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The film, which centers on a group of egotistical actors making a Vietnam War movie, grossed nearly $200 million worldwide and picked up an Oscar nomination for supporting actor thanks to Robert Downey Jr.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 26 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • If the company gets cocky and goes too high, that could ruin a lot of the appeal here.
    Chris Welch, The Verge, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The mention of a weapon sets off one officer: Jaime Pino, a 20-year veteran with the cocky manner and imposing presence of a TV cop.
    Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But the celeb-dense Broadway phenomenon du jour is Mulaney and Simon Rich’s All In with its boastful list of guest stars like Lin-Manuel Miranda and Fred Armisen.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Prosecutors claimed that Barahona returned twice to the scene of the shooting and sent boastful text messages to friends.
    Serena Lin, Austin American-Statesman, 15 May 2024
Adjective
  • As Peggy Dodd, consigliere to her bumptious 1950s cult-leader husband, Adams tends to wear a soft smile and blouses buttoned to the neck — a picture-perfect model of mid-century femininity.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
  • It’s all spanked along by one of those golly-gee bumptious holiday musical scores.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Teamsters officials later complained that Harris, who would go on to lose all seven battleground states, was arrogant in her dealings with them.
    W. James Antle III, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Russia, Iran, and many other countries criticize U.S. military interventions as arrogant, ignorant of local context, and unable to fashion either stable regimes or effective security structures.
    Alexander Baunov, Foreign Affairs, 26 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • This is the worst kind of football team: a conceited but objectively mediocre squad.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
  • Rory Kinnear steals some of the best lines as the conceited British prime minister, and Ato Essandoh, as Kate’s deputy chief, plays the ever-flustered man surrounded by extremely capable women with admirable humor, charm, and confidence.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Daemon, Viserys’s vainglorious younger brother, had married his niece in part as a way to strengthen his own bid for the throne, and Alicent had pushed for the ascension of her immature firstborn, Aegon.
    Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Debuting March 3, the six-part realpolitik satire, created and executive produced by Succession alum Will Tracy, sees Oscar and Emmy winner Winslet return to HBO in an often hilarious role as the vainglorious Elena.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 20 June 2024
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