bloviates

verb

present tense third-person singular of bloviate
as in declaims

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloviates
  1. declaims
  2. pontificates
  3. rants
  4. spouts
  5. blows
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  • Woody Harrelson declaims every line, upping the relentless factor of Phil’s mania.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 May 2026
Definition of declaims
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  • Indeed, the Abbé pontificates on pretty much every topic known to man as the pair try in vain to tunnel their way to freedom.
    — Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2026
  • That’s especially true for one of its two main narrators, Verity, an aging franchise movie star who acts, thinks, and pontificates like an adolescent.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025
Definition of pontificates
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  • And his ultimate war is with Bob, a tech CEO who rants about his haters and has gotten rich off rebranded snake oil and whose obvious corruption has been obscured by his self-mythologizing.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • One grumbles when the driver rants about development’s ravages.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2025
Definition of rants
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  • Trish coined the nickname, which is funny because Cannon never spouts off.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Though the dream stalker is genuinely terrifying in the 1984 original, his cultural ubiquity grew as the character became less of a boogeyman than a kind of homicidal jester, one who spouts groan-worthy one-liners before spilling your guts.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
Definition of spouts
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  • Grucci fireworks are stored in cement-block structures in rural Virginia—well spaced, in case one blows.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Peter trying to have a normal holiday while grieving Tony, Mysterio’s deception, and the post-credits scene that blows Peter’s life apart — all of it feeds into where the new film finds him.
    — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
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“Bloviates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloviates. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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