rodomontade

noun

ˌrä-də-mən-ˈtād How to pronounce rodomontade (audio)
variants also rhodomontade
Definition of rodomontadenext
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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  1. rhetoric
  2. braggadocio
  3. grandiloquence
  4. bluster
Noun
  • The rhetoric on social media following that – that murder is extraordinarily alarming.
    CBS News, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The steep slide that month came as Fed rhetoric was perceived as too hawkish for comfort, coinciding with concerns over tariff impacts.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of rhetoric
Noun
  • There were no pretensions of showmanship, no displays of braggadocio — just the hollow ringing of palms on goatskin.
    Taran Dugal, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Its lyrics dabble in and dart out of classic rap tropes; braggadocio has its situational benefits, but so does investigating and upending the inequities and insecurities that draw the behavior out.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of braggadocio
Noun
  • 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
  • Several of them can fly, and all have at least a touch of grandiloquence to them.
    Michael Nordine, Variety, 11 Aug. 2022
Definition of grandiloquence
Noun
  • Despite his bluster, Putin has not shown a willingness to truly constrain his decision making and continually exhibits great creativity in escalating the war in Ukraine by other means, such as involving North Korean troops.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Though Mey personally sympathizes with Columbina, a down-to-earth female stock character, Mey associates Joshie with Il Capitano, the epitome of masculine bluster, whose bragging the other characters see through easily.
    Daniel Bromfield, The Mercury News, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of bluster
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“Rodomontade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rodomontade. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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