Meaning of bloviate | Babel Free

Definitions

To speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.

US, intransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“Peter P. Low, Esq., will with open⟳ throat…bloviate about the farmers being taxed upon the full value of their farms, while bankers are released from taxation.”

“His passion when bloviating was furious and terrible to look⟳ upon; but there was nothing to it more than sound⟳ and pretense.”

““The cost⟳ of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me,” he said on “This Week,” the ABC News program⟳.”

“And in turn⟳, more complex ones: could his son have⟳ become⟳ Boris Johnson, bloviating commentator and one-time prime minister of Britain, without one [a nanny]?”

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