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as in chatterer
a person who talks constantly
a politician who is the stereotypical backslapping blowhard
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as in braggart
someone who boasts
a blowhard who always had to act like she was better than anyone else
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Recent Examples of blowhard
Being a manager is hard; being a blowhard columnist after a series that brought national indignity to the local nine is easy.
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Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
30 Mar. 2026
Because his subject was surrounded by colorful and often unpredictable characters—alcoholics, neurotics, and blowhards—Perkins’s self-effacing qualities make for a dramatic contrast and a wealth of wild stories.
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Boris Kachka,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
The wonder is how Kamala Harris ever chose this creepy blowhard as her 2024 vice presidential running mate.
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Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
10 Jan. 2026
In the best Scrooge tradition, Brad — a three-time Razzie Award nominee who at the story’s beginning is filming the seventh installment of his cheesy action movie series Killing Time — is an obnoxious blowhard who hits on his married co-star and refuses to do his own stunts.
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Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Nov. 2025
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Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
30 Mar. 2026
Because his subject was surrounded by colorful and often unpredictable characters—alcoholics, neurotics, and blowhards—Perkins’s self-effacing qualities make for a dramatic contrast and a wealth of wild stories.
—
Boris Kachka,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
The wonder is how Kamala Harris ever chose this creepy blowhard as her 2024 vice presidential running mate.
—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
10 Jan. 2026
In the best Scrooge tradition, Brad — a three-time Razzie Award nominee who at the story’s beginning is filming the seventh installment of his cheesy action movie series Killing Time — is an obnoxious blowhard who hits on his married co-star and refuses to do his own stunts.
—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blowhard
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Even the New York Times got in on the action, with a profile of the eccentric Sitwell (the charms her magpie, Hecate, are impossible to resist).
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Over to the corvid family for some intelligence, and the raven gets the nod for its size advantage over the magpie and the jay.
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Clayton is cool and kind and a big braggart.
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Still, Kimmel never came off as a braggart.
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Which is the unstoppable windbag destined to monopolize conversation at breakfast?
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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.
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The story is told from Dah’s perspective, as Jocelyn—who displays a quasi-mystical rapport with fighting cocks—suffers an emotional breakdown, putting their business and their lives in danger.
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The former became fighting cocks and the latter became sows.
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If the legislature paced the flow of business better, the gasbag Republicans, whose ranks grow smaller and smaller, would lose their power to disrupt with hours of monologues.
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In one painfully funny sequence, a visiting gallerist (and gasbag) barely seems to care about her art, showing more interest in a goose’s nest that has materialized in an enclosure.
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But in reality, closed or blocked vents disrupt the airflow balance and can cause pressure to build up in the duct system, making the blower work harder.
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Dillion points out that one major repair, like replacing a blower motor, can be enough for a plan to pay for itself.
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“Blowhard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blowhard. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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