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bombast::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | blah, claptrap, fustian, rant |
| Type of | grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric |
| Derivation | bombastic |
Examples of bombast
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Mostly, the new album is true to the sort of bombast he perfected on Teflon Don.
From the kentucky.com
And the homestretch was filled with riffs and bombast, in a very, very good way.
From the sfgate.com
But alongside the bombast, Italian fascism relied on bludgeons and intimidation.
From the guardian.co.uk
As the bombast reaches a fever pitch, the United States is refining its message.
From the cnn.com
Like so many of his generation, he valued quiet reticence above shrill bombast.
From the dailymail.co.uk
Early on, she pegged me as a cocky guy with more bombast than actual expertise.
From the jsonline.com
Bombast has been the story of the last few weeks in the Virginia governor's race.
From the washingtontimes.com
Rather than stand up to this outrageous bombast, the officer meekly swallowed it.
From the forbes.com
Beside him, BBC chairman Lord Patten seemed to have lost a few ounces of bombast.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
- Pompous or pretentious talk or writing
- (bombastic) ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
- Fustian (also called bombast) is a term for a variety of heavy woven, mostly cotton fabrics, chiefly prepared for menswear. It is also used to refer to pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech, from at least the time of Shakespeare. ...
- Originally, cotton, or cotton wool; Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding; High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian; To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate; High-sounding; inflated; big ...
- (bombastic) Pompous or overly wordy; High-sounding but with little meaning; Inflated, overfilled
- (Bombastic) adj. Of, from, or pertaining to the PC-USA.
- (bombastic) (adj) - pompous writing or speech; grandiloquent. bombast (n)
- Hyperbolic or wildly exaggerating speech, so-called after a kind of cotton stuffing.
- Padding made of cotton and rags used to stuff in the linings of 16th-century garments.
