as in chatterer
a person who talks constantly
with a windbag like that, who needs a wind farm to meet our energy needs?
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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.
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Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
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
But to some ears, Bross’ pitch sounded like the stump speech of a windbag politician: long on purple prose, short on facts.
—Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 3 Mar. 2022
More: How Rand Paul went from calling Donald Trump an 'orange windbag' to being a devout disciple
That put all eyes on Murkowski, whose vote could have forced a 50-50 tie.
—Ben Tobin, The Courier-Journal, 31 Jan. 2020
Some combination of deliberate tactics and the unprecedented loathing of his opponents causes anything bombastic, silly, or overly self-centered to be played up and employed to reinforce the caricature of him as a blustering, narcissistic windbag.
—Conrad Black, National Review, 11 Sep. 2019
Göring does not seem to care about anything, that windbag.
—Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 6 July 2018
Are Douthat, Robin, and others right in dismissing Trump as just a windbag?
—Jeet Heer, New Republic, 12 Feb. 2018
Even that old windbag Polonius, played by Robert Joy, is less a bombastic grandstander than a dry-as-dust martinet.
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
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
But to some ears, Bross’ pitch sounded like the stump speech of a windbag politician: long on purple prose, short on facts.
—Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 3 Mar. 2022
More: How Rand Paul went from calling Donald Trump an 'orange windbag' to being a devout disciple
That put all eyes on Murkowski, whose vote could have forced a 50-50 tie.
—Ben Tobin, The Courier-Journal, 31 Jan. 2020
Some combination of deliberate tactics and the unprecedented loathing of his opponents causes anything bombastic, silly, or overly self-centered to be played up and employed to reinforce the caricature of him as a blustering, narcissistic windbag.
—Conrad Black, National Review, 11 Sep. 2019
Göring does not seem to care about anything, that windbag.
—Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 6 July 2018
Are Douthat, Robin, and others right in dismissing Trump as just a windbag?
—Jeet Heer, New Republic, 12 Feb. 2018
Even that old windbag Polonius, played by Robert Joy, is less a bombastic grandstander than a dry-as-dust martinet.
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
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“Windbag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/windbag. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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