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boastful speech or writing<filling a speech with bombast about one's unique qualifications for student council is usually a bad idea>Synonymsbluster, brag, braggadocio, gas, grandiloquence, hot air, rantRelated Wordsrhapsody, rhetoric; babble, blab, chatter, drivel, gabble, gibber, jabber, prattle; jawing, patter, prating, yammering; egotism, self-conceit, self-importance
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language that is impressive-sounding but not meaningful or sincere<you need less bombast and more evidence in this paper>— see rhetoric 1
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