bloviate
verb
blo·vi·ate
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bloviated;
bloviating
Definition of bloviate
: to speak or write verbosely and windily
pundits bloviating on the radio
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Other Words from bloviate
bloviation
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noun
Examples of bloviate in a Sentence
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This group, led by Tony Caputo himself, has been bloviating for years. — Steve Hartman, CBS News, "They call themselves Old Coots and they have some advice for you," 26 July 2019 This commencement season is marked not just by bloviating billionaires promising to pay down millions in student loan debt, like Robert Smith did at Morehouse College last week. — Dylan Bouscher, The Mercury News, "Political Cartoons: Graduation and Student Debt," 10 June 2019 By contrast, bloviating pols, hack journalists and garden-variety academics never stop writing books about Churchill. — Joe Queenan, WSJ, "Please, Santa: Not Another Tome About Churchill," 20 Dec. 2018 There’s a lot going on here, which leads to a whole lot of gassy exposition to explain it all, including two separate scenes in which two different groups of good guys are tied to chairs while villains bloviate on the intricacies of the plot. — Soren Andersen, The Seattle Times, "‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’: Paul Rudd is back in busy little sequel," 2 July 2018 That’s a good and under-appreciated quality in our age of bloviated self-promotion. — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, "Coal Cloud, VW Charge, Twitter Passwords: CEO Daily for May 4, 2018," 4 May 2018 When Silicon Valley kicked off its fifth season Sunday night, the HBO tech comedy did so without one of its breakout characters: bloviating, oafish entrepreneur Erlich Bachman, played by T.J. Miller. — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, "How does HBO's 'Silicon Valley' move on without T.J. Miller?," 25 Mar. 2018 Where other viewers might see talking heads bloviating about various policies, Trump sees people who should be making the policies in real life — or, at least, pushing his in a telegenic way. — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, "When heads roll, Trump looks for replacements on TV," 16 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'bloviate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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