blustering

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adjective

blus·​ter·​ing ˈblə-st(ə-)riŋ 

1

: blowing in stormy gusts

blustering winds

2

: speaking loudly and aggressively

a blustering bully

blusteringly adverb

This rather prompted the question of why Apple had been so confident of its encryption powers. Was it merely naïve in its belief in its own technical competence? Blusteringly overconfident?

—Michael Wolff

blustering

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present participle of bluster entry 1

Examples of blustering in a Sentence

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Adjective

Without the distracting histrionics of the blustering Republican nominee, the Vance-Walz face-off could prove more substantive than the two presidential debates that took place this summer. — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1513, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for blustering

• clustering
• mustering
• filibustering