bloviating

present participle of bloviate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloviating
Verb
  • An alienated professor takes up weight lifting and ranting in Jordan Castro’s perceptive new novel, Muscle Man.
    Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Some of these people are ranting and raving, threatening violence against strangers or exhibiting tendencies to hurt themselves, others are quietly living in filth or unclothed or unshod in frigid temperatures.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • That entanglement allowed Biden to traverse the country haranguing business on equity, climate, daycare, union labor, and other whole-of-government crusades—while taunting Republicans who relented for the sake of home-district dollars.
    Clyde Wayne Crews Jr, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Tuesday’s report is likely to be viewed favorably by the president, who has spent the past months haranguing Fed Chair Jerome Powell to lower interest rates.
    Rob Wile, NBC news, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Rather than the writer pontificating about how Pfleger needs to retire from active priesthood, how about a better use of his time by advocating the notion that pedophile priests should be retired to jail.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The slippers have more than 1,600 five-star ratings, with fellow shoppers raving about their durability and fit.
    Alyssa Grabinski, People.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Fans are raving about the episode on reddit and elsewhere.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Walter Sam believes in the magical power of accurately wielding words as well as the bad juju that comes with spouting them all willy-nilly.
    Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Jason Momoa, who was born to star in a Street Fighter movie, will glower as Blanka, the green-skinned, orange-haired, electricity-spouting creature that debuted in Street Fighter II.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As health restrictions discouraged people from blowing directly into instruments, Gajewski and Brown reimagined the design.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Soldiers have also been spotted in parks carrying out tasks typically assigned to gardeners and landscapers – shoveling mulch, blowing leaves and scooping up trash.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
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“Bloviating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloviating. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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