variants
also rhodomontade
as in rhetoric
boastful speech or writing
for all of its jingoistic rodomontade, the government had no thought-out plan for the war and its aftermath
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Medvedev's comments, posted to Telegram on Saturday, suggested that Vance's rhetoric took European leaders by surprise and aligned with Russian criticisms of Western democracies.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
15 Feb. 2025 -
Ukraine's president may be more influenced by the realties in his home country that Trump's rhetoric.—
Shannon K. Kingston,
ABC News,
14 Feb. 2025
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Some of the braggadocio Bregman displayed during the previous two seasons disappeared, but his behind-the-scenes leadership did not.—
Chandler Rome,
The Athletic,
12 Feb. 2025
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At the same time, his braggadocio stirred an excitement that hadn’t been seen for any boxer in years.—
Mikal Gilmore,
Rolling Stone,
17 Jan. 2025
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Much of that singularity was centered in McCarthy’s prose, which ricocheted—sometimes gracefully, sometimes jarringly—between gruff matter-of-factness and soaring, biblical grandiloquence.—
Alex Shephard,
The New Republic,
13 June 2023
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Several of them can fly, and all have at least a touch of grandiloquence to them.—
Michael Nordine,
Variety,
11 Aug. 2022
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Agency officials should try not to get caught up in Trump’s bluster.—
Peter Schroeder,
Foreign Affairs,
17 Jan. 2025
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Alas, much of the dialogue has thus far been dominated by fact-free political bluster.—
Sammy Roth,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Rodomontade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rodomontade. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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